Title -- Copyright -- About the Author -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Who This Book Is For -- Assumptions -- How This Book Is Organized -- Conventions Used in This Book -- Keeping the Book's Content Current -- 1 Basic Drawing and Painting Tools -- The Paint Brush and Airbrush -- Basic Brush Settings -- Brush Variance -- The Eraser -- The Preset Shape Tool -- The Pen Tool -- Line Segments -- Point to Point Lines and Curves -- Freehand Lines and Curves -- The Text Tool -- 2 More Painting Tools -- The Eye Dropper -- The Color Replacer -- The Clone Brush -- Aligned Mode -- Nonaligned Cloning -- Picture Tubes -- Setting Up Third-Party Tubes -- Flood Fill -- Using Different Materials with Flood Fill -- Flood Fill Settings -- The Warp Brush and Mesh Warp Tool -- The Warp Brush -- The Mesh Warp Tool -- 3 Being Selective -- Making Selections -- The Selection Tool -- The Freehand Selection Tool -- The Magic Wand -- Match Mode -- Tolerance -- Feather and Sample Merged -- Adding to and Subtracting from a Selection -- The Selections Menu -- Select All and Select None -- Invert -- Matting -- Modify -- Hide Marquee -- Edit Selection -- Edit Operations -- Cut and Copy -- Paste -- Clear -- 4 Mastering Layers and Blend Modes -- 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 -- Adjustment Layers -- Adding an Adjustment Layer -- Editing an Adjustment Layer -- Limiting the Effects of an Adjustment Layer -- A First Look at Masks -- What Is a Mask? -- Creating and Editing Masks -- Deleting Masks -- The Deform Tool -- The Background Eraser -- 5 Mastering Selections, Masks, and Channels -- Selections -- Editing, Saving, and Loading Selections -- Beyond Mask Basics.

Loading and Saving Masks -- What You Can Do with Masks -- Color Channels -- The RGB Color Model -- The HSL Color Model -- The CMYK Color Model -- Advanced Techniques for Isolating Areas -- Converting Selections and Masks -- Combining Selections -- Combining Masks -- Using Channels to Make Selections -- Editing and Recombining Channels -- 6 Working with Vectors -- Vector Basics -- 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 -- Modifying Vector Text -- Creating Text on a Path -- Converting Text to Curves -- Example: A Simple Vector Drawing -- 7 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 -- Extended Examples Using Built-In Effects -- All Kinds of Seamless Tiles -- What Can You Do with Polar Coordinates? -- Balls, Bubbles, and Beyond -- Miscellany -- Gradients and Effects -- Halftone and More -- Magnifying Lens Isn't Just for Lenses -- User Defined Filters -- Plug-In Filters -- 8 Photo Editing and Enhancement -- Quick Fixes -- Correcting Lens Distortion -- Rotating and Straightening -- Correcting Perspective -- Improving Brightness and Contrast -- Levels -- Histogram Adjustment -- Curves -- Color Adjusting -- Fade Correction -- Red/Green/Blue, Color Balance, and Channel Mixer -- Grey World Color Balance -- Black and White Points -- Manual Color Correction -- Saturation Adjustment -- Noise Reduction -- Blurring and Sharpening -- Photo Enhancement -- Using the Scratch Remover -- Using the Clone Brush -- Using the Dodge and Burn Brushes -- Using the Change To Target Brush.

Red-Eye Correction and JPEG Artifact Removal -- Cropping and Resizing -- Cropping -- Resizing -- Things to Do with Your Photos -- 9 Web Tools -- GIF, JPEG, and PNG -- Interlaced GIFs and Progressive JPEGs -- Transparent GIFs and PNGs -- Reducing Color Depth -- Eliminating Dithering -- Setting Transparency -- Optimizing and Previewing Web Graphics -- JPEG Optimizer -- GIF Optimizer -- Creating Transparent GIFs with the GIF Optimizer -- PNG Optimizer -- Preview in Web Browser -- Using the Image Mapper -- Using the Image Slicer -- Creating Rollovers -- 10 Tricks and Techniques -- Text Effects -- Shaky Text -- Metallic Text -- Cracked Text -- Glassy Text -- Better Black-and-White Photos -- Black-and-White from Channel Mixer -- Simulating Infrared Photos -- Photos That Never Were -- Compositing Photos -- Digital Face-Lift -- Creating a Panorama -- Drawings and Paintings from Photos -- Digital Drawings -- Digital Paintings -- Colorizing Clip Art -- Just the Beginning -- 11 Adding to Your Toolkit -- Making Your Own Textures -- Making Your Own Patterns -- Making Your Own Shapes Library -- Making Your Own Styled Lines -- Editing Gradients -- Creating Your Own Brushes -- Creating Your Own Picture Tubes -- Creating Your Own Picture Frames -- User Defined Filters -- The Technical Stuff -- Blur Filters -- Emboss Filters Galore -- Sharpen Filters -- Edge Detect Filters -- Infinite Filter Possibilities -- 12 Scripting -- Script Basics -- Running Scripts -- Recording Scripts -- Editing Scripts -- Third-Party Scripts -- Running Scripts in Batch Mode -- Learning More About Scripting -- A Paint Shop Pro 8 Menus, Toolbars, and Palettes -- B Configuring Paint Shop Pro 8 -- Customizing Toolbars -- Customizing Menus -- Creating Keyboard Shortcuts -- Saving Workspaces -- Setting Preferences -- C Adjusting Color Depth -- D Printing -- 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 -- E Resources -- PSP Tips, Tutorials, and Resources -- Filters -- Newsgroups, Newsletters, and Discussion Boards -- Freeware and Shareware Fonts -- Scanning, Printing, and Digital Photography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.