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 enlarge | Author: Diane Koers
Publisher: Course Technology PTR
Category: Book
List Price: $29.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 17873
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 396
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 1598634259
Dewey Decimal Number: 775
EAN: 9781598634259
ASIN: 1598634259
Publication Date: February 7, 2008
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 A great book July 8, 2008
Having the program for awhile there were certain parts I found a bit hard to use.This book has overcome these problems.Diane Koers explains it all in a easy to follow manner. This a wonderful text book to have for users of the Corel program.
 Paint shop pro for this dummy July 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Found this book to be extremely helpful to this novice.
It is well written and doesn't make any assumptions that you have any previous experience with this type of software.
Great book about great software June 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It's hard for me to review this book without also discussing the book's topic, which is Corel's Paint Shop Pro Photo X2. Fortunately, I like them both. PSP Photo X2 is an admirable substitute for Adobe's Photoshop (at a fraction of the price). As such, the array of options and terms and icons and toolbars and palettes is potentially overwhelming, even for someone who may otherwise be technically astute. Diane Koers's book has just enough theory and background thrown in with the practical "how to" aspects to strike a perfect balance, and to help make sense of PSP Photo X2.
The book is well organized, and it has a fair index and a very good table of contents, so it can either be read from cover to cover, or used effectively as a reference. As is fitting for a book about graphic images, the book itself is of the highest quality, attractively laid out, with pages of coated paper that faithfully reproduce the many illustrations. It is well edited and essentially free of typos and grammatical errors (which is to be expected from a book published by Course Technology). In short, I highly recommend both the software and the book about the software. My only suggestion would be that Ms. Koers write a separate companion volume consisting of a series of tutorials. I find that nothing completes a learning experience better than a set of case studies and some directed hands-on practice.
I should probably add, just in case the point isn't obvious from the comparison to Photoshop, that in addition to photo editing, PSP Photo X2 has also has a robust set of web-centric features. Support for layers, which are essential for creating and maintaining computer graphics, and for GIF, PNG, and BMP formats is part of the core functionality of the software. Both the RGB (for computer graphics) and CMYK (for printing) color models are supported (the index of the book refers to CMYK as "CMTK", which is the only typo I've found in the book thus far). Ms. Koers's book gives this web-centric functionality a fair amount of coverage. I would recommend this book (and PSP Photo X2) to web developers and designers as well as to photography buffs. Paint Shop Pro Photo X2
Great Product May 9, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
If your looking for something that rivals Elements at a great price you just found it. And it works with Vista. Great editing tools. Easy to work with. You will love this product.
Assisting my photos April 18, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book was at the right price, as it was a used copy at a good price. It seems to contain all that I require at my level of photograghic skill. A bargain!!
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