Paint Shop Pro - PSP, Photo, Software, Tutorial - Online

Paint shop pro is a bitmap and vector graphics editor originally developed by Jasc Software but later appropriated by the Corel Corporation who subsequently gained the rights to Paint Shop Pro (PSP). PSP competes with Adobe Photoshop to lead the graphics design market. Since Paint Shop is much cheaper in price than many other image editing software, it has acquired a significant user base and a reputation as a user-friendly product.

An online photo software tutorial for PSP is not hard to find with a quick search online. Such a tutorial shall be useful if it successfully makes the complex features used when editing a PSP photo intelligible.

Corel's Paint Shop series has a new version: Paint Shop Pro. Corel describes their newest product nicely:

"The Paint Shop Family, one of the world's leading digital photography and image editing software lines for digital photographers, graphics hobbyists, and business users, includes the award-winning Paint Shop Pro® and Photo Album. Paint Shop Pro provides photo editing and graphics design for advanced and intermediate users seeking high quality image editing results. Photo Album allows users at all experience levels to organize, fix, share and protect photos quickly and easily."

Other PSP upgrades include a revamped Learning Center and Makeover Tools (such as a Tooth whitener and a Suntan Tool).

Popular Paint Shop plugins include:

• Sharpness Editor; allows sharper and crisper edges
• Black & White Studio; converts digital colour to black and white and also has various filters.
• Colour correction; change hues and brightness ranges easily
• Exposure correction; in selected areas or the whole photo

Whatever Paint Shop Pro plug-in you choose; it will seamlessly integrate with and enhance the original software as a mini-module.

Source: wikipedia.org, corel.com, powerretouche.com
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