Paint Shop Pro 8 Zero to Hero

By Sally Beacham, Ron Lacey

Paint Shop Pro 8 is a feature-packed graphics tool that enables you to edit and enhance your photos, as well as use its powerful drawing and text tools to create artwork from scratch. The scope of this program is immense: you can use it for all your graphic design projects at home, business, or just for fun. Photography, text, vector graphics, webpage interfaces… the combinations and possibilities are endless. For the inexperienced, knowing what you can achieve is just as difficult as learning how to do it.

Paint Shop Pro 8 Zero to Hero answers all these questions and enables you to create professional looking graphics for your home and business projects. In fact, you'll learn to do everything the program can do. Fast. From Paint Shop Pro beginner to master, this book is designed to get you up to speed in the blink of an eye.

Combine artwork with text for newsletters or business cards
Restore old or damaged photographs
Create custom paint brushes and patterns
Build animated buttons for your website
Locate and share Paint Shop Pro resources with other users online
Speed up your workflow with scripts and batch processing
Zero to Hero is more than a catchy slogan and an opportunity for puns and graphical representations of tights, capes, and phone booths. It's a style of learning designed by friends of ED to reach beyond dry technical explanations and dusty old authors who don't know how it is for real users and wouldn't know good design if it slapped them round the face with a wet fish.

With a Zero to Hero book you can choose how you learn. Learn everything you need to know about Paint Shop Pro 8 by working through the first section of the book from start to finish or, alternatively, you can dive straight in to the inspirational 'Hero' chapters and refer back as and when you need. Then later, when you're a hero yourself, the book is easily used as a reference tool.
When you're done you'll be ready to wear your underwear on the outside, metaphorically speaking of course.

Summary of Contents

Chapter Zero - Introduction
Chapter 1 - Selections and Text
Chapter 2 - Layers and Masks
Chapter 3 - Digital Darkroom
Chapter 4 – Filter Effects
Chapter 5 – Drawing with Vectors
Chapter 6 – Special Image Effects
Chapter 7 – Web Graphics
Chapter 8 – Customising Paint Shop Pro 8: Have it your way
Hero 1 – Digital Divorce
Hero 2 – Creating Logos with Vector Graphics
Hero 3 – Webpage Interface
Appendix: Online Resources