These days, nobody really needs to learn everything there is to know about software product like Paint Shop Pro. And even if you did, who has the time to endlessly tinker and play with it until you figure everything out?
You just want a book that will quickly show you how to do things with Paint Shop Pro things that aren't already covered in the docs, and things you can't just figure out on your own.
Paint Shop Pro in a Snap is designed specifically for today's computer user:
Somebody who is new to Paint Shop Pro, but not new to computers.
Somebody who doesn't have time for long-winded, mind-numbing explanations and certainly no time or patience for bad jokes.
Organized into a series of well-organized, bite-sized, quickly accomplished tasks, this book lets the reader zero right in on the one particular task he or she wants to accomplish, quickly figure out what to do, do it, and then get back to work.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
uninspiring:
The book covers many of PSP's photo editing options, but is rather uninspiring in it's examples: too many family pictures and not enough color examples.
Photo:
Very good for photographic purposes and for me as an amateur photographer.In this respect it could hardly be any better since the book clearly demonstrates every step to be undertaken when working with a photo.Since the book hardly treats other aspects-which by the way don't interest me-I can't say anything about them
A Treasury of How To Information:
As a lifelong amateur photographer and digital image user for 8 years, I thought I knew a great deal about enhancing photos. I was pleasantly surprised to learn much more from this reader-oriented, consistently-detailed "how to" book. Especially useful were tricks for sharpening images, eliminatng blemishes, and improving portraits. Tips giving suggested parameter values were also valuable. I thoroughly enjoyed the author's personal style of exposition. After renewing the book three times from the... more info
Limited use, sloppy writing:
I agree with a previous reviewer: this book is extremely limited in its scope, given that it's some 450 oages. It assumes that ALL you want to do is clean up or enhance your family photos. There's almost nothing on creating original graphics. For example, there's absolutely NOTHING on doing such basic things as resizing an image, using the Picture Tube function, or applying backgrounds. It's a shame because I've had SAMS books about previous versions of Paint Shop Pro that were far more useful.
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