Creating Paint Shop Pro 5 Web Graphics - Softcover

Shafran, Andy

9780966288902: Creating Paint Shop Pro 5 Web Graphics

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0966288904 ISBN 13: 9780966288902

Publisher: Cengage Learning PTR, 1998

The full-color guide to outstanding images with Paint Shop Pro 5. Written by Paint Shop Pro Experts, this book includes dozens of tutorials, techniques, and examples geared for the beginner through advanced Paint Shop Pro user. An original art cover complements the Vivid and generous use of color throughout the entire book. Technically edited by Jasc Inc., this book includes chapters on photo-retouching, Image optimization, GIF Transparency, and more. It covers all the new features in Paint Shop Pro 5, including Layers, Picture Tubes, Animation Shop, and more.

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Review:

For a few years now, Jasc Software's Paint Shop Pro has been a popular and affordable image editor and paint program for producing Web graphics. Whether or not you joined the bandwagon early on, you'll be able to learn lots from this full-color guide. It illuminates the basic and advanced aspects of working within the updated program, Paint Shop Pro 5, to create excellent Web images--from logos and icons to photos and background graphics.

Author Andy Shafran first takes you through the basics of using the package to create and edit simple graphics and photos. He also teaches you about GIF, JPEG, and other Web file formats and explains the basics of using HTML tags to add images to your pages. Next you apply special effects and work with Picture Tubes (a tool for painting with graphics instead of paint), layers, and black-and-white images. Shafran offers advice on using scanners and digital cameras to bring images into your computer and helps you retouch and correct those images. He also explains how to create transparent GIFs, GIF animations, image maps, and backgrounds and teaches you how to keep your images small.

The last two chapters focus on using extra HTML tags to control the appearance of your images and on learning additional Paint Shop Pro tips for creating gradients, textures, drop shadows, clip art, and 3-D effects. One appendix directs you to Web sites that offer graphics and development guidance. Another supplies a reference list to Paint Shop Pro's toolbar and palette options. --Kathleen Caster

From the Publisher:

To be effective, a graphics book must be printed in color. Paint Shop Pro 5 is the world's leading Prosumer graphics package. Perfectly priced for small businesses and consumers, this PhotoShop alternative lets you create amazing images for the Web and in print in a matter of minutes. This book is the ideal companion for Paint Shop Pro. It was written by one of the world's leading Paint Shop Pro experts - someone who has personally taught over 5000 individuals how to use this software, and edited by Jasc Software Inc. directly. Printed on high-quality paper which brings out the vivid color examples, this book delivers Paint Shop Pro 5 to all users.

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