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Picture Yourself Learning Corel PaintShop Pro X4

Photo-Editing Learning Guide

  • Correct and enhance photographs
  • Use layers to adjust brightness, hue and contrast
  • Learn about resolution
  • Create digital scrapbooks and more!

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Designed for anyone interested in graphics, photography, or photographic creations, this book demonstrates how you can put the incredible power of Corel PaintShop Pro X4 into play. It cuts to the chase of the PaintShop Pro X4 tools that are best used when working with photographs and creating your own graphic elements. You’ll learn about how to correct and enhance photographs so that things like red-eye, scratches, blemishes, and unwanted objects no longer detract from your favorite pictures, whether they’re ones you just captured or ones you’re trying to restore to former glory. You’ll read about color and how it works and use layers to adjust brightness, hue, and contrast. You’ll also learn about resolution and how it applies to your monitor, your images, and your prints. In addition, you’ll explore the PaintShop Pro RAW lab, where you can process your camera’s RAW images, getting just the look you want. Discover fun things you can do with your photographs, such as creating digital scrapbook pages and 3-dimensional images. You’ll learn how you can make composite images and create works of art with the special effects provided with PaintShop Pro X4.

Throughout these pages, you’ll find step-by-step instructions, full-color photographs, Notes, and Tips. You’ll also find appendixes covering keyboard shortcuts and additional resources on the Internet, as well as a Glossary you can refer to for new terms. Harness the power of PaintShop Pro X4 to perfect your photographs and create graphic elements that are dynamic, unique, and fun.

This book also has a companion website at www.courseptr.com/downloads. Here’s what’s available there:

  • Fun sample graphics, fonts, frames, and brushes
  • Demo add-on filters programs for use with PaintShop Pro X4


Diane Koers
ISBN 10: 1-4354-6059-6
410 pages, full color
MSRP: $29.99

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Getting Acquainted
Chapter 2: Working with PaintShop Pro Files
Chapter 3: Becoming More Organized
Chapter 4: Making Selections
Chapter 5: Making Quick Fixes
Chapter 6: Manually Editing Images
Chapter 7: Understanding Color
Chapter 8: Developing Layers
Chapter 9: Adding Effects, Filters, and Deformations
Chapter 10: Discovering Drawing Tools
Chapter 11: Constructing Vector Objects
Chapter 12: Editing Vector Objects
Chapter 13: Working with Text
Chapter 14: Printing and Sharing Images
Chapter 15: Creating Panoramas and 3-D Photos
Chapter 16: Making Digital Scrapbooks

Diane Koers owns and operates All Business Service, a software training and consulting business formed in 1988 that services the central Indiana area. Her area of expertise has long been in word-processing, spreadsheet, and graphics areas of computing, as well as providing training and support for Peachtree Accounting Software. Diane’s authoring experience includes more than 40 books on topics such as PC security, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Works, WordPerfect, PaintShop Pro, Lotus SmartSuite, Quicken, Microsoft Money, and Peachtree Accounting, many of which have been translated into other languages such as Dutch, Bulgarian, French, Spanish, and Greek. She has also developed and written numerous training manuals for her clients.