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Books on PSP 9
I've started using Paint Shop Pro 9. I like it, but find the
differences from Elements II are considerable and the "help" is like all such items, less than helpful if you don't know what the programmers were thinking, and what they called a particular action/item. So far, in a quick check, I've found four books, two of which seem more related to graphics types than to photographers, and one of which sounds slightly silly. That leaves me with the silliest sounding, "PSP 9 for Dummies", as the main contender for a beginner's book here. Anyone have other suggestions as to reading material that might be useful? I don't want to spend $100 on books, and end up having to read six or seven, if I can spend $20 and read one. |
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I found Paint Shop Pro 9 - Photographers Guide by Diane Koers (Thompson
Course Technology) very good and reasonably priced.....got it on the net somewhere, try a Google search DonB |
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Charlie Self wrote:
I've started using Paint Shop Pro 9. I like it, but find the differences from Elements II are considerable and the "help" is like all such items, less than helpful if you don't know what the programmers were thinking, and what they called a particular action/item. So far, in a quick check, I've found four books, two of which seem more related to graphics types than to photographers, and one of which sounds slightly silly. That leaves me with the silliest sounding, "PSP 9 for Dummies", as the main contender for a beginner's book here. If you haven't already done so, you should check-in at the self-help newsgroups on the Corel news server: cnews.corel.com. Look for the newsgroup corel.PaintShopPro9 and others. A very helpful bunch of folk! Cheers, David |
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David J Taylor wrote: Charlie Self wrote: I've started using Paint Shop Pro 9. I like it, but find the differences from Elements II are considerable and the "help" is like all such items, less than helpful if you don't know what the programmers were thinking, and what they called a particular action/item. So far, in a quick check, I've found four books, two of which seem more related to graphics types than to photographers, and one of which sounds slightly silly. That leaves me with the silliest sounding, "PSP 9 for Dummies", as the main contender for a beginner's book here. If you haven't already done so, you should check-in at the self-help newsgroups on the Corel news server: cnews.corel.com. Look for the newsgroup corel.PaintShopPro9 and others. A very helpful bunch of folk! Thanks, David. I'll do that. I'll also check out the book the previouos poster mentioned. |
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"Charlie Self" wrote in message
ups.com... I've started using Paint Shop Pro 9. I like it, but find the differences from Elements II are considerable and the "help" is like all such items, less than helpful if you don't know what the programmers were thinking, and what they called a particular action/item. So far, in a quick check, I've found four books, two of which seem more related to graphics types than to photographers, and one of which sounds slightly silly. That leaves me with the silliest sounding, "PSP 9 for Dummies", as the main contender for a beginner's book here. Anyone have other suggestions as to reading material that might be useful? I don't want to spend $100 on books, and end up having to read six or seven, if I can spend $20 and read one. There are a ton of PSP user groups, online classes, online tutorials, etc which are very helpful and, if you're like me, will educate you faster than reading chapters in a book(s). I *wish* the same would happen for Photoshop CS. You may find that many tuts are done in PSP 8 but they are still good for PSP 9. Those done in version 7 or earlier are not as compatible with 8 or 9 because the prior version required more steps taken to achieve an end goal. The first link below is a PSP "community" which gets high marks. The second link is to free tuts and the third is a google return on PSP related things online. http://www.pspug.org/ http://www.baycongroup.com/paint_shop_pro/tutorials.htm http://www.google.com/search?q=paint...en-US:official -- Tara |
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