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Picture Yourself Learning Corel Paint Shop Pro X2

Whether you want to design amazing, web friendly graphics or modify your digital photographs, Corel Paint Shop Pro X2 can show you how. Picture Yourself Learning Corel Paint Shop Pro X2 shows you how to use this newfound Paint Shop Pro knowledge to create items such as panoramas, calendars, scrapbook pages, greeting cards, and other exciting and fun items.

Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 For Photographers

Unleash your creative potential with this essential guide to the myriad of features in Paint Shop Pro Photo X2. Written specifically for photographers by a working professional, it tells you exactly what you need to know to master the powerful creation and editing techniques of this award-winning software.

Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 For Photographers by Ken McMahon is an excellent book for users who want less hand holding and that don't want to approach the lessons with a "please walk me through this" type of attitude. If you would open this book simply saying "show me the tools and what they can do, then I'll take it from there," you will find the lessons extremely helpful. You'll get the unique opportunity to browse the journal of a professional photography editor who's main goal is to teach you many of his creative tips and techniques. The book is very well organized and allows for easy following and understanding of these techniques. And, being written by a professional photographer, you will feel comfortable knowing that these examples have been thoroughly field tested and applied to real situations.

If you are a beginner to intermediate level user and are looking for guide to help satisfy your photography editing needs, then Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 For Photographers is my recommendation.

Photo Restoration and Retouching Using
Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo

Follow along as Robert shares his 15+ years of expertise in Photography Restoration and Retouching using Corel's Paint Shop Pro Photo. With over 70 "real–world" photos from his own personal print and digital photo collection, he'll share his tips and techniques for a wide range of problems that through either time or mishap often creep into your photos. He'll show you what works, and what doesn't. Whether your photographs are new or old, digital or print, color or black–and–white, this book covers practically all aspects of the restoration and retouching process from lighting, color, contrast, tears, to scratches and other blemishes.

Being Paint Shop Pro users ourselves, we were a bit skeptical when Robert invited us to review his new book. For our personal use, we have always used the program primarily for web graphic design, and shied away from the photography end of it. Now, it looks like that's going to change. Robert's book has been very educational for us and opened up quite a few new doors. Once we started reading, we began trying some of the techniques he presents and found that the results were far better than we had expected. The step-by-step lessons and illustrations are very easy to follow and understand.

With in depth explanations on how to use the clone brush, layers, different opacity levels, and the different filters and effects within the scopes of Paint Shop Pro Photo, anyone wanting to break into the photography restoration business, will find that this is a most helpful and must have book. While we contemplated sharing some of our re-touched photographs with our visitors, we've decided to wait until we have a lot more practice with that new thinify tool!

All levels of photographers, whether amateur or professional will find that this book is top class in quality, and the logical presentation of materials is certainly a refreshing addition to anyone's Paint Shop Pro/Photo book collection. This fantastic guide is packed with lots of screen shots, tips, and techniques to turn your photos into great masterpieces and memories.

Loadboy