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Title: Paint Shop Pro 8 : The Guide to Creating Professional Images by Robin Nichols ISBN: 0-240-51698-2 Publisher: Focal Press Pub. Date: 03 December, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: good book but not for beginners
Comment: If you've never worked with an image-editing software, this is not the best first book to get. If you just got a digital camera and you don't have experience editing digital photos, this might not be your best choice.
I got this book from my local library because it is the only book they have that is specifically written for Paint Shop Pro (PSP) version 8. I had version 7 for almost 2 years and was quite familiar with it. Version 8 has a lot of new features, and many of the old features are re-arranged so they're not where they were in version 7.
This book was helpful, but not completely what I was looking for. This book would be best if you want to work with digital (or scanned) photographs. The author seems to think that's the only thing PSP is good for, editing photos. He tells you lots of things you can do, so if that's what you want to do, and if you already have some experience with image editing software, this is the right book for you.
He doesn't hold your hand and go step-by-step, at least not for every concept he talks about. He sometimes, but not always, shows you where the tool he's talking about is located. He seems to assume the reader brings a certain amount of knowledge with him/her when they pick up the book. But if you've got dark photos, light photos, photos that are out of perspective, or if you want to learn ways to make your images really stand out, this book is very helpful. He also tells you steps to use to take several photos and put them together to make a panorama, and how to make it look like it was taken as one photograph. There are some very neat things you can learn in this book.
But, if you are like me, and your primary interest in PSP is creating images from scratch, for web sites or other publications, for stationary to be used in emails, you're not going to get much out of this book. The author says PSP's picture tube feature is "one of those esoteric tools that's almost impossible to find a proper use for." So if you're one of those people who has a huge collection of tubes, if you go surfing the net to find sites that have tubes that you can download for free, you can see that this author is not on the same page as you are. He does, however, give a step by step lesson in how to make your own picture tube, even if he's not so sure how you'd use it. It was interesting to me that the panorama photo he used, in it's final version, showed a seagull that was not in any of the original photos. I thought it might have been a tube, but he did't say. His chapter on text contains sections on vectors and brushes and doesn't show you step by step how to do many of the effects he illustrates.
So, if you are a digital photographer, you might want to buy this book. If you are a PSP artist, and you want to make your own images for web sites, this book might be of some help to you, but it wasn't written with you in mind.
Rating: 5
Summary: Paint Shop Pro 8
Comment: If you have just a little knowledge of digital imaging this is the book for you. Illustrations are great and the text is easy to follow. Recommend you read PSP 8 "Fast and Easy" first and then read this book. Great Australian sense of humor throughout book.
Rating: 5
Summary: A GREAT book
Comment: As soon as I opened this book I knew I would like it. It's in COLOR, what a novel idea, to make a photo book in color!!!!
:-). It deals with digital photos and scans and web only, none of that other stuff you can do like make graphics and things. You can also download the picture from the web site to follow along. For working with digital photos and scans this is the BEST PSP 8 book I have used.
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Title: Paint Shop Pro 8: Fast & Easy (Fast & Easy) by Diane Koers ISBN: 1592000975 Publisher: Premier Press Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Paint Shop Pro 8: Zero to Hero by Sally Beacham, Ron Lacey ISBN: 1590592387 Publisher: friends of Ed Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title:Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8 ASIN: B00008ZGOE Publisher: Jasc Inc. Pub. Date: 12 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $109.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $82.99 |
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Title: How To Do Everything with Paint Shop Pro 8 by David Huss, Dave Huss ISBN: 0072191074 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 27 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Paint Shop Pro 8 Power! by Lori J. Davis ISBN: 1929685386 Publisher: Muska & Lipman Pub Pub. Date: 20 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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