How To Do Everything with Paint Shop Pro 8

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Summary: How To Do Everything with Paint Shop Pro 8
Review: Yes, the title is very misleading! But that is not so much the fault of the author. McGraw Hill/Osborne has a whole series of "How to do Everything with" books. At first glance I thought this might be a great book for photographers ... because it didn't talk about all the "paint" features, the silly picture tubes etc. This is a fine book for beginners but I had hoped for more in a number of areas. His knowledge of cropping leaves a bit to be desired and most of the example photos are very amateurish. As I got further into the book I found that the author did not mention "unsharp mask" when discussing sharpening and the word "optimize" never found its way into the text!!! So I have to question the validity of this author! How can he work with photographs and not use the unsharp mask and optimize his work when it is saved? I had also hoped for more information about Scripting. There's nothing here about customizing recorded scripts. Since Scripting is one of the best new features about v.8 he should have gone into detail!
To my knowledge there is NOT an excellent, or really good book on the market about using PSP with photographs!

Rating:
Summary: How To Do Everything with Paint Shop Pro 8
Review: Yes, the title is very misleading! But that is not so much the fault of the author. McGraw Hill/Osborne has a whole series of "How to do Everything with" books. At first glance I thought this might be a great book for photographers ... because it didn't talk about all the "paint" features, the silly picture tubes etc. This is a fine book for beginners but I had hoped for more in a number of areas. His knowledge of cropping leaves a bit to be desired and most of the example photos are very amateurish. As I got further into the book I found that the author did not mention "unsharp mask" when discussing sharpening and the word "optimize" never found its way into the text!!! So I have to question the validity of this author! How can he work with photographs and not use the unsharp mask and optimize his work when it is saved? I had also hoped for more information about Scripting. There's nothing here about customizing recorded scripts. Since Scripting is one of the best new features about v.8 he should have gone into detail!
To my knowledge there is NOT an excellent, or really good book on the market about using PSP with photographs!