Paint Shop Pro Power

Rating:
Summary: Not what I needed
Review: Paint Shop Pro 7 ..Power Solutions is not what I need. No help at all. Page 1 is Customizing the toolbar... I got the book
to help me get started on PSP7...never used it before. Silly
to try to customize a toolbar if I have no idea how the tools
work.

My objective in downloading PSP was to aquire a picture and then
select that picture in 4 quandrants and then enlarge each
quadrant by 1.78 and then print out each quadrant picture.

I want to print an enlarged picture in parts so I can fit
them togather. No help from this book...no printer info.

leo

Rating:
Summary: Good book .. I retract previous review
Review: Paint Shop Pro 7 POWER SOLUTIONS has been very helpful to me.
I am new to PSP or any graphics program so I do need some help even with the basics. This book does not deal with the basics or with printing ( which is what I need), but it does provide a lot of good information and the picture presentations are very good....

Rating:
Summary: Needs updating for scanners, cameras & inkjets
Review: This full color book is full of procedures to do text, selections, coloring, compositing, layering, masking, filtering, and correcting images using PSP v7.0, which is the current version. It has a couple ways of repairing worn photos and a small fun area that includes turning a photo into a pencil sketch. There is a very short 2 1/2 pg index.

It did not, however, include any information and techniques for using PSP with scanners and digital cameras and inkjet printers, which I think is a significant omission. For example it did not include any information in scanning or transferring a photo as a 1024 x 768 pixel image and tell you the better ways to get the best 5x7 photo printed off on a 1200 dpi inkjet printer. In fact scan and print is not in the index, although scanning is touched on in the photo repair section (p157).

There is a section on using 3rd party PhotoShop compatible filters (p137, 165), such as Alien Skin and shareware. In the end there is some troubleshooting on deleting the registries (p169). There is no capability comparison with Adobe PhotoShop or other image editors. I read this book at a local library.