Contents -- 1 Paint Shop Pro 8 Basics -- Installing Paint Shop Pro -- Installing the CD Version -- Installing the ESD or the Trial Version -- The Paint Shop Pro Workspace -- The Tools Toolbar -- The Menu Bar -- The Standard Toolbar -- The Specialty Toolbars -- The Tool Options Palette -- The Materials Palette -- The Overview Window -- The Layers Palette -- The Status Bar -- Other Palettes and Toolbars -- The Brush Variance Palette -- The Magnifier -- The Histogram Window -- The Effects Toolbar and the Web Toolbar -- Managing Palettes -- Floating and Docking Palettes -- Resizing Palettes and Toolbars -- Auto Rollup -- Dialog Boxes -- Image Basics -- Opening an Existing Image -- Creating a New Image -- Saving an Image -- Scripts -- Configuring Paint Shop Pro -- Customizing Toolbars -- Customizing Menus -- Creating Keyboard Shortcuts -- Saving Workspaces -- Setting Preferences -- Getting Help -- 2 The Painting Tools -- The Paint Brush and Airbrush -- Selecting Styles and Textures with the Materials Palette -- Selecting Brush Settings with the Tool Options Palette -- Brush Variance -- The Eraser and Background Eraser -- Flood Fill -- Other Painting Tools -- The Retouching Tools -- The Clone Brush and the Scratch Remover -- The Scratch Remover -- The Color Replacer -- Picture Tubes -- The Warping Tools -- The Warp Brush -- The Deform Family of Tools -- 3 The Drawing Tools -- The Preset Shapes Tool -- The Pen Tool -- Line Segments -- Point to Point Lines and Curves -- Freehand Lines and Curves -- Creating Cutouts -- Styled Lines -- 4 Working with Layers and Masks -- Layer Basics -- Getting Acquainted with Layers -- Working with Layers -- Layer Visibility and Protect Transparency -- Linked Layers -- Layer Groups -- Opacity and Blend Modes -- Merging Layers -- Blend Ranges -- Using a Mask -- What Is a Mask? -- Creating and Editing Masks -- Deleting Masks.

Loading and Saving Masks -- Examples -- Creating an Artistic Edge -- Blending Layers with a Gradient Mask -- A Painterly Effect using Blend Ranges -- 5 Selections -- Making Selections -- The Selection Tool -- The Freehand Selection Tool -- The Magic Wand -- Copying and Pasting a Selection -- Cut and Copy -- Paste -- Clear -- Modifying a Selection -- Adding to and Subtracting from a Selection -- Some Selections Menu Options -- The Modify Submenu -- Select Similar -- Select Color Range -- Inside/Outside Feather and Unfeather -- Shape Based Antialias and Recover Antialias -- Remove Specks and Holes -- Smooth -- Select Selection Borders -- Loading and Saving Selections -- Converting Selections to Masks and Vice Versa -- Examples -- A Simple Stained Glass Effect -- Isolating a Figure with a Selection Converted to a Mask -- 6 Vector Solutions -- Vector Objects -- Deforming a Shape -- Modifying an Object's Properties -- Object Alignment and Distribution -- Modifying a Shape -- Node Editing -- Changing Node Types -- Transforming Selected Nodes -- Making Cutouts with Vectors -- Example: A Simple Vector Drawing -- 7 Text Solutions -- Adding Text to an Image -- Enhancing Text with 3D Effects -- Warping and Deforming Raster Text -- Modifying Vector Text -- Creating Text on a Path -- Converting Text to Curves -- Examples -- Creating a Logo -- Making Text Stand Out on a Complex Background -- 8 Photo Editing Solutions -- Overview of Enhance Photo Commands -- Correcting Lens Distortion -- Basic Color Correction -- Histogram Adjustment and Adjust HSL -- JPEG Artifact Removal and Unsharp Mask -- Some Other Adjust Menu Commands -- Blur Filters -- Sharpness Filters -- Softness Filters -- Add/Remove Noise Filters -- Negative Image -- Color and Contrast Adjustment -- Adjustment Layers -- Cloning, Retouching, and Scratch Removal -- The Clone Brush -- The Retouching Tools.

The Scratch Remover -- Correcting Perspective -- Cropping, Resizing, and Rotating -- Cropping -- Resizing Images and Layers -- Flip, Mirror, Rotate, and Straighten -- Example: Enhancing a Photo -- 9 Print Solutions -- Image Size and Resolution for Printing -- Choosing the Right Paper -- Printing an Image -- Using Paint Shop Pro's Print Layout -- Printing from the Browser -- A Note on Printing Services -- Examples -- Creating and Printing a Newsletter -- Creating and Printing a Greeting Card -- 10 Web Graphics Solutions -- What Makes a Graphic Suitable for the Web? -- Creating Buttons, Bars, and Bullets -- Handmade Buttons -- Separator Bars -- Bullets -- Creating Background Tiles -- Optimizing and Previewing Web Graphics -- JPEG Optimizer -- GIF Optimizer -- Creating Transparent GIFs -- PNG Optimizer -- Preview in Web Browser -- Using the Image Mapper -- Using the Image Slicer -- Example: Creating a Unified Site -- A: Paint Shop Pro 8 Effects -- Built-in Effects -- 3-D Effects -- Art Media Effects -- Artistic Effects -- Distortion Effects -- Edge Effects -- Geometric Effects -- Illumination Effects -- Image Effects -- Reflection Effects -- Texture Effects -- User Defined Filters -- Plug-in Filters -- B: Paint Shop Photo Album -- C: Resources -- Paint Shop Pro Tips and Tutorials -- Plug-in Filters -- Freeware and Shareware Fonts -- Newsletters and User Groups -- Miscellaneous -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.