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Contents
Chapter 1 Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
What’s New in Version 8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
System Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Installing the Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Learning Paint Shop Pro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Getting Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Chapter 2 Getting to Know The Program . . . . . . . . . . 11
Starting and Exiting Paint Shop Pro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Exploring the User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Using Toolbars and Palettes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Viewing Images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Viewing Image Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Working with Dialogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Using Shortcut and Function Keys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Chapter 3 Getting Images into Paint Shop Pro . . . . . . 29
Opening Existing Images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Creating Images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Importing Images from Digital Cameras and Scanners. . . . . . . . 38
Capturing Images from the Computer Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Using the Paint Shop Pro Browser. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Saving Image Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
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Chapter 4 Improving Photographs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Basic Steps in Improving Photographs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
How to Approach Color, Contrast, and Saturation Adjustments . 53
Improving Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Improving Contrast. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Improving Saturation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Removing Source Defects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Removing Image Defects and Noise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Correcting Image Distortions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Retouching Photographs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Improving Image Clarity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Chapter 5 Working with Colors and Materials . . . . . . . 81
Using the Materials Palette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Understanding Color and Color Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
How Monitor and Print Colors Differ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Working with Color Channels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Understanding Color Depth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Working with Image Palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Making a Palette Color Transparent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Chapter 6 Editing Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Cutting, Copying, and Pasting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Deleting Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Using Undo/Redo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Repeating Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Using Rulers, Grids, and Guides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Cropping Images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Resizing Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Changing Canvas Size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Rotating Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Scaling and Transforming Images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Correcting Image Perspective. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Warping Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Adding Borders to Images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Flipping and Mirroring Images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Combining Two Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
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Chapter 7 Making Selections in Images . . . . . . . . . . 153
Using the Selection Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Using Edit Selection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Working with Standard and Floating Selections. . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Adjusting Selection Borders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Modifying Selections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Moving Selections within an Image. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Converting a Selection into a Layer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Creating Custom Patterns from Selections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Saving and Loading Selections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Chapter 8 Making Color and Tonal Corrections . . . . 181
Key Points to Know Before Making Corrections. . . . . . . . . . . 182
How Corrections Relate to Color Depth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Adjusting the Color Balance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Adjusting Brightness and Contrast. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Replacing Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Reducing or Removing Colors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Using the Histogram to Analyze Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Chapter 9 Painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Painting with the Paint Brush or Airbrush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Creating Brush Tips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Setting Brush and Paint Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Warping Images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Erasing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Cloning Parts of Images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Retouching Images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Filling Areas with Colors, Gradients, Patterns, or Textures . . . 222
Replacing Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Painting with Picture Tubes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
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Chapter 10 Drawing and Editing Objects. . . . . . . . . . . 227
About Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Drawing Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Creating New Preset Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Creating Custom Line Styles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Editing Vector Object Properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Aligning and Arranging Vector Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Resizing and Reshaping Vector Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Editing Paths and Contours. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Adding and Closing Contours. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Editing Nodes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Chapter 11 Working with Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
About Layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Using the Layer palette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Adding New Layers to Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Editing Layer Properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Modifying Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Using Adjustment Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Chapter 12 Working with Masks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
About Masks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
Creating Masks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Editing Masks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
Saving Masks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Loading Masks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
Deleting Masks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Chapter 13 Working with Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Creating Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
Formatting Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
Moving Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Editing Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
Scaling and Transforming Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
Applying Effects to Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
Creating Text with Image Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Creating Text on Object Paths. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Converting Text to Curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
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Chapter 14 Applying Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
Choosing Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
Adding Noise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Adding Picture Frames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
Mathematically Combining Two Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
Creating Your Own Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
Chapter 15 Using the Web Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Sending Images via E-Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Uploading Images to a Photo Sharing Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Previewing Images in a Web Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
Mapping Images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
Creating Image Rollovers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
Slicing Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Saving Images for the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
Using Digital Watermarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
Chapter 16 Printing Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Before Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
Choosing Printing Setup Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
Printing a Single Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
Printing Multiple Images on a Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
Printing Images Using a Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366
Printing Images from the Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
Printing with CMYK Color Separations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
Chapter 17 Automating Tasks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
Scripting Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
Recording and Saving a Script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
Running a Saved Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
Stopping or Undoing a Script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
About BoundScripts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
About Protected Script Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382
Editing Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
Using and Creating Presets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386
Processing Multiple Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
Renaming Multiple Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
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Chapter 18 Customizing Paint Shop Pro . . . . . . . . . . . 393
Setting General Program Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394
Resetting Application Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
Using Custom Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
Setting File Locations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
Setting File Format Associations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
Setting Autosave Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
Setting File Format Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
Customizing Toolbars and Menus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412
Setting Other View Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416
Adjusting Monitor Display Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
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C H A P T E R 1
Getting Started
Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8 is the most complete, easy-to- use software for
professional digital imaging results. Combining a unique set of
automatic and precision photo editing and graphic design tools with
an integrated learning system, Paint Shop Pro helps you deliver
superior results with power and ease. It’s your complete solution for
print and Web.
Contents What’s New in Version 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Installing the Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Learning Paint Shop Pro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Getting Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
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What’s New in Version 8
Paint Shop Pro version 8 includes many new and improved features
to make photo enhancements and image editing easier and more
powerful.
Enhanced User Interface
A New Look Paint Shop Pro includes new icons, palettes, and menu
displays to make using the software more intuitive.
Enhanced Tool options The Tool Options palette is now fully
dockable, streamlined, and much more intuitive.
Enhanced Materials The Materials palette (formerly the Color
palette) includes easy-to-use controls for selecting colors, patterns,
gradients, and textures.
Enhanced Tools toolbar The tools on the Tools toolbar are grouped
into related categories organized on flyouts.
Enhanced Layer palette The Layer palette allows you to better
manage and view image data.
Integrated Learning Tools
Learning Center Window Get started quickly with the new Learning
Center window that guides you around Paint Shop Pro. Try out new
Quick Guides that lead you through a variety of common projects to
help you get up and running fast.
Product Tour Familiarize yourself with Paint Shop Pro by viewing
the all-new Product Tour. Nearly 50 topics show you the many
results you can achieve using Paint Shop Pro for all of your photo
and graphics projects.
