Unfortunately, these features are hard to locate. And, of course, Paint Shop includes all the buzzword Web features, including slicing (cutting an image into easily transmittable pieces), rollovers, and image maps. Paint Shop Pro itself, however, supports a variety of tools that optimize compressed graphics files for the Web, including JPEG, GIF, and PNG. To help Web artists create animated GIFs, Paint Shop Pro includes Animation Shop 3.0, a midrange Web graphics creator. And Paint Shop ships with almost every imaginable color-correction tool, including a sophisticated channel mixer, which enhances the red, green, or blue channels in an image by adding percentages of the other two channels. Fiddle with Paint Shop's 80 or so filters, such as Spiky Halo or Buttonize, to look at the effects without making a commitment. Paint Shop Pro's new Effects preview browser makes it easy to add special effects to your images, too. But unlike the rest of the packages, Paint Shop Pro integrates its vector tools seamlessly and elegantly so that it's easy to switch back and forth between vector and bitmap tools. Many image editors now include vector tools, which create objects with crisp edges (such as text outlines). It supports both bitmap (raster) images and vector objects-the best of the illustration and photo-editing worlds.
(For an image-editing tutorial, read " Perfect Pictures in a Flash.")Īnd if you need more advanced tools, Paint Shop Pro has them, too.
Version 7.0 has even added menu commands that automatically remove red-eye and fix blemishes caused by dust and scratches. Besides, Paint Shop's interface is so straightforward, you probably won't need help with most common tasks. Although it doesn't come with wizards, Paint Shop's help is beautifully organized and teaches you the ropes without much jargon. Fortunately, Paint Shop Pro holds your hand most of the way. Image editing is a formidable challenge for most amateur designers, primarily because you need to learn tons of tools and processes to use image-editing software. This program is feature-packed and robust enough for professional-caliber image editing yet easy enough for artists of all skill levels. For example, Paint Shop Pro's vector drawing tools are so tightly integrated into the program-making them much easier to learn and use-that they beat Photoshop's hands down. In fact, for about $500 less, you get a program that's almost as good as Photoshop. You just gotta love software that plays David to Adobe Photoshop's Goliath, and Jasc Software's Paint Shop Pro does just that.
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