How to Do Everything with Paint Shop Pro 8

by Dave Huss and David Huss

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0072191074
• ISBN13: 9780072191073
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

A very good book on Paint Shop Pro 8

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.

The best for PSP 8 and digital photography

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 NicholsHow To Do Everything with Paint Shop Pro 8 by Dave HussPaint Shop Pro 8 Zero to Hero by Sally Beachman and Ron LaceyPaint 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.

Thank God for this Book

This book, with its step-by-step procedures, saved me loads of time and money. As an artist trying to ramp up very quickly on a new freelance job, this book showed me EVERYTHING I needed at first glance.I created mouse-over buttons in seconds following the instructions in this book. I like the way the instructions are laid out: Pixel-, resolution-, and palette-settings are all defined for you! The "Create Images for the Web" chapter is a life-saver for anyone designing for the Web. With this book, I was able--in a very short time--to focus on my art, not the tool!!

Fantastic book

Finally a Paint Shop Pro book for photographers! Paint Shop Pro 8 is a great program but most books either parrot the User Guide or waste pages showing how to make silly projects. The author is clearly a photographer and shows how to enhance, repair and otherwise make OK photos into great ones. He includes tips throughout the book about how to take better photos with digital cameras. If you can only get one book on Paint Shop Pro, this is the one to get.

How to do IMAGES with Paint Shop Pro 8

Firstly, the author takes great pain to bring across his techniques in easy to understand processes. This book is very user friendly.The title of the book, however, suggests that you will learn the in's and out's of Paint Shop Pro 8. I had assumed this would mean getting a good grasp of the various new tools and how to use them. This is not the case.A more appropriate title for the book would have been something like, "How to Do Everything with Images with Paint Shop Pro 8"Even the author indicates this "image" approach in the Introduction chapter.If you're looking for a book that will tell you how to fix photo's or get creative with photos and images, this is your book, no doubt about it. However, if you're looking for a book that helps with the practical application of the many drawing related tools in Paint Shop Pro 8- keep looking.