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Paint Shop Pro 5 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide) | 
| Authors: Ben Sawyer, Joann Meyer
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
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Pages: 304
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 7 x 0.6
ISBN: 0201353628
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.6869
EAN: 9780201353624
ASIN: 0201353628
Publication Date: October 2, 1998
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Amazon.com Review
This simple, no-nonsense guide teaches beginners how to get up and running quickly in Paint Shop Pro, the inexpensive image editor and Web graphics tool from Jasc, Inc. The authors start you off with a tour of the interface and proceed to help you acquire images from scanners, digital cameras, the Web, and other sources. You learn how to create selections; work with layers; manage and apply color; use the drawing and photo-retouching tools; create masks; apply filters; work with deformations and arithmetic; place and fine-tune artistic type; and save, convert, and print files. Finally, you create Web images such as buttons, rules, and banner ads with image maps and browser-safe colors. The last chapter reviews Animation Shop, the GIF-animation tool that ships with the program. Appendices cover keyboard shortcuts and list Web resources for learning more about Paint Shop Pro. Throughout the book, the authors present step-by-step instructions for each exercise along with general usage tips. While they successfully avoid bogging you down with needless detail, they are also not overly simplistic. --Kathleen Caster
Product Description
Paint Shop Pro 5 is the latest version of this popular image editing software for Windows, which is downloaded and used by millions of desktop and webtop publishers. It's the perfect tool for nongraphics professionals who want to create, view, and manipulate graphics for their Web sites, business presentations, digital cameras, and personal artwork. But for most users, Paint Shop Pro doesn't come with a manual, because millions of them have downloaded the software from the Web. This VQS is the documentation they will be looking for. The Paint Shop Pro 5 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide will quickly get beginning and experienced users up to speed on the new features of the software, and will teach them how to prepare graphics for the Web, process images and convert scans and digital photos, create multimedia presentations, and more. With its numerous screenshots and to-the-point numbered steps, the book quickly teaches the basics of Paint Shop Pro, from navigating and selecting to working with color to using painting and drawing to all new features including the Animation Shop image animator. New users will find it easy to get up and running quickly with the software, while experienced Paint Shop Pro users will find a wealth of tips and new information about the latest version of the software.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 Good Cheat Sheet April 4, 2000
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Well written for what it is. If you're trying to understand graphics concepts - buy another book. It tells you what commands/buttons to click on without explaining why. Severly lacking in discussion of subjects. More like a 300 page cheat sheet!
 Not for beginner, not a reference book. March 30, 2000
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I found this book very confusing. It is the worst book I have ever had. I don't know for whom this book was written, who would find it useful? I can give just one star for this book, because at least it has text and pictures. Don't spend your money, you will find user's guide for this program more useful and for free.
 Disappointing for a Beginner! August 10, 1999
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
If you're an experienced Paint Shop Pro user, this might be a good reference book. But as a novice, I found the book to be confusing, just a collection of Paint Shop Pro facts and procedures. It would have been nice to have some examples, where an image is edited from start to finish, step by step. Also, I couldn't help but notice that the authors did not give an address or email address where they could be contacted with questions, comments, errors in the book, etc. I have put this book back on the shelf and I'm using the manual that came with Paint Shop Pro.
 PSP 5 Visual Quickstart guide is a Visual Kickstart July 17, 1999
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
The Peachpit press Visual Quickstart Guides are absolutely the best tutorial guides on the market for computer users today. They use fast clearly worded directions, great photo examples and clear definitions to enable you to quickly get a firm handle on using PSP 5. and all the other Software and Programming media out there today, for the advanced to novice user. Great Value and Updates available online make these the "Must Have's" of computer tutorials
 not for the total beginner July 9, 1999
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Good book if you have a bit of hands on with this program. I would not say it is a good book for the total beginner...some of the examples are a bit hard to follow. It is a REFERENCE book not a insparational book. You should have some idea of what you want to do. It is organized in logical sections and subjects were easy to find. Even with the programs manual, this is a good book to have handy. I think it should have been spiral bound to lay flat tho, I hate having to set something on it to keep it flat while I work. The book is not in color but there are center pages that have color examples. Yes I would buy it again if I lost it.
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