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| How To Do Everything with Paint Shop Pro 8 | 
 enlarge | Authors: David Huss, Dave Huss
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Category: Book
List Price: $24.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 789098
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0072191074
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.686
UPC: 783254037137
EAN: 9780072191073
ASIN: 0072191074
Publication Date: May 27, 2003
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Condition: recycled library book that was made available for resale through a book leasing program,this book may have library stickers and/or card holder.
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Product Description
Add dazzling effects to your digital camera photos with help from this friendly, solutions-oriented guide to the latest release of Paint Shop Pro. Covering all of photo-editing fundamentals this easy-to-use resource will show you how to repair damaged photos, scan images, add text to images, create Web graphics, build simple yet eye-catching animations, and more. For adding new life to any photo or including animated graphics on your Web site, this is the ideal book for you.
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 "Not Everything" January 5, 2009
This is a great book, but the title is a little missleading. It is not a complete reference for Paint Shop Pro 8. It provides many helpful hints and ideas for how to do things, paticularly with photo editing, but it does not help much with graphics design. It also does not throughly explain some of the tools and how they are used.
It has been most helpful for many things and has been a good addition to my library, but it was not the end all answer I had hoped for
 A very good book on Paint Shop Pro 8 March 16, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book was everything I hoped it was. It explained a lot of things about PSP that I didn't know. I mean that it help in all of the different versions of PSP. I was very pleased and I am still learning from it.
Not Everything, Mostly Photo Manipulation How To December 29, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The title of my review says it all. Although the title of the book is "How To Do Everything ..." it mostly shows you how to manipulate your photo images. Has some basic info on the controls but very little about how to use Paint Shop Pro 8 in creating or modifying graphic images. Get Paint Shop Pro 8 For Dummies if you want more useful info for the same size book/price.
The best for PSP 8 and digital photography June 15, 2004
41 out of 42 found this review helpful
Although this book needs another title (it certainly does not cover 'everything' in PSP 8 especially things like brushes, filters, it is still an excellent reference for using PSP 8 with your digital photography images and teaching some digital photography techniques.I bought:
Paint Shop Pro 8: The Guide to Creating Professional Images by Robin Nichols How To Do Everything with Paint Shop Pro 8 by Dave Huss Paint Shop Pro 8 Zero to Hero by Sally Beachman and Ron Lacey Paint Shop Pro 8 Power by Lori Davis. Dave's book is by far the best for digital photography and Paint Shop Pro 8, he knows his photography unlike the others who really seem to struggle to explain anything but the most basic, surface information. Zero to Hero by Beacham and Lacey is a complete was of money in my experience unless you are a person who doesn't have a clue when you are being fed garbage information by macjob type people who have no formal training in graphics design (it shows in their book). Robin Nichols book is much better than Dave's for covering brushes, filters, and giving examples of real creative design. Robin seems to have the best knowledge of graphic design principles and concepts and has the creative touch to bring it all together for the reader nicely. Lori Davis' book is much like Beacham and Lacey's when it comes to lacking any hint of unique, creativity, but at least Lori knows Paint Shop Pro well, unlike Beacham and Lacey who seem to be very limited in the topics they can discuss in detail. Lori's book is a good extension of the Paint Shop Pro 8 manual where she covers what has been done but uses more examples. Out of these books if you have the cash purchase Dave's book for his digital photography and photo editing tips and tricks and advice. Buy Robin's book for creative ideas in designing from scratch graphics and learning creative ways to use the brushes and filters. Buy Lori's book to get if you want a more technical look at aspects of Paint Shop Pro 8's general features, but don't need creative insights. With these 3 books you should have more than you will ever need, but if you can only afford two than get Dave's and Robin's.
 How To Do Everything with Paint Shop Pro 8 December 10, 2003
21 out of 22 found this review helpful
Yes, the title is very misleading! But that is not so much the fault of the author. McGraw Hill/Osborne has a whole series of "How to do Everything with" books. At first glance I thought this might be a great book for photographers ... because it didn't talk about all the "paint" features, the silly picture tubes etc. This is a fine book for beginners but I had hoped for more in a number of areas. His knowledge of cropping leaves a bit to be desired and most of the example photos are very amateurish. As I got further into the book I found that the author did not mention "unsharp mask" when discussing sharpening and the word "optimize" never found its way into the text!!! So I have to question the validity of this author! How can he work with photographs and not use the unsharp mask and optimize his work when it is saved? I had also hoped for more information about Scripting. There's nothing here about customizing recorded scripts. Since Scripting is one of the best new features about v.8 he should have gone into detail!
To my knowledge there is NOT an excellent, or really good book on the market about using PSP with photographs!
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