Paint Shop Pro X User Guide - FTP - Corel Corporation

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Welcome toCorel Paint Shop ProCorel® Paint Shop Pro® sets the standard for affordable, professional image editing.You can edit photos, create graphics, draw, and paint, all within a highly customizableworkspace.In this section, you’ll learn about• what’s in this user guide• what’s new in Corel Paint Shop Pro• installing and uninstalling Corel Paint Shop Pro• starting and exiting Corel Paint Shop Pro• registering Corel products• updating Corel products• Corel® Support Services• Corel CorporationWhat’s in this user guideThis user guide contains the information you need to become familiar with theCorel Paint Shop Pro workspace, to understand the photo-editing workflow, and to getstarted with basic tasks and some creative possibilities. It is designed to accompany themore comprehensive Help, which is available from within the program, as well as otherlearning resources, such as tutorials, movies, and training videos available on the CorelWeb site (www.corel.com). For information about additional learning resources, see“Learning how to use Corel Paint Shop Pro” on page 11.What’s new in Corel Paint Shop ProThe new features in Corel Paint Shop Pro are designed to enhance your ability to workwith digital photographs, to help you create and touch up artwork and graphics, and toboost your productivity.Welcome to Corel Paint Shop Pro 1
Enhanced user interface• The Learning Center palette presents a more intuitive approach for guiding youthrough the basic Corel Paint Shop Pro workflow. The Home page of the LearningCenter palette contains seven main categories, which together represent a typicalworkflow. Each category contains several detailed topics to guide you in choosingtools and commands that will help you work quickly and efficiently.• The Browser palette replaces the Browser from the previous version ofCorel Paint Shop Pro. From within the Browser palette, you can zoom in onthumbnails, view Browser thumbnails in Photostrip mode, and print contactsheets.• The Layers palette displays the contents of a layer as a resizable thumbnail. Layerinformation can be set to appear across the top of the palette or next to each layer.• The Pick tool is new and resembles a combination of the Raster Deform tool andthe Object Selection tool from previous versions of Paint Shop Pro. The Pick toolallows you to select and modify raster layers and vector objects.Enhanced photo adjustment features• The new Makeover tool provides three fun modes for photo retouching. You canremove blemishes, whiten teeth, and even apply a suntan.• The new Red Eye tool offers the fastest way yet for removing red-eye. You just setthe tool size and click the eye.• The Smart Photo Fix command lets you precisely adjust color balance, brightness,contrast, sharpness, and saturation, and set black and white points manually. Youcan also let the program suggest settings for these adjustments.• The One Step Purple Fringe Fix command gets rid of the purple glow thatsometimes appears around edges and objects under certain lighting conditions.• The One Step Noise Removal command identifies and eliminates the excess “noise”that is often seen in digital photos.• The new Color Balance command lets you choose between a simple mode thatquickly cools or warms the colors in photos, and an advanced mode that providesmore comprehensive adjustments.• The new High Pass Sharpen command provides superior enhancement of the edgesand details in your photos.• Improvements to the metadata feature allows you to enter your own copyright andIPTC data.• Full support of 16-bit images allows professional photographers to work with theirhigh-fidelity images without compromising quality. High-fidelity images, which2 Corel Paint Shop Pro X User Guide
Page 4 and 5: Table of contentsWelcome to Corel P
Page 6: Working with colors and materials.
Page 11 and 12: 2 Insert the CD in the CD drive.If
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Page 15 and 16: Get photosYour first step is to tra
Page 18 and 19: Learning how to useCorel Paint Shop
Page 20 and 21: access the Help from the Learning C
Page 22 and 23: Workspace tourThe Corel Paint Shop
Page 24 and 25: PaletteLearning CenterBrowserTool O
Page 26 and 27: Flyout arrowSome tools are grouped
Page 28 and 29: ToolBurnSmudgePushSoftenSharpenEmbo
Page 30: ToolSmearArt EraserDescriptionUse t
Page 33 and 34: 2 Access your camera from within Co
Page 35 and 36: The Corel Paint Shop Pro PspImage f
Page 37 and 38: Browsing through image foldersWith
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Page 41 and 42: You can also copy a Corel Paint Sho
Page 43 and 44: You can also redo an action by clic
Page 45 and 46: To rotate an imageCorel Paint Shop
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Page 49 and 50: To correct perspectiveUsing the Per
Page 51 and 52: To adjust a photo in one step• Ch
Page 53 and 54: Resizing imagesAfter you adjust you
Page 55 and 56: To remove red-eye quickly1 On the T
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To remove facial wrinkles1 On the T
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the same layer, another layer in th
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You can also deselect the selection
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You can alsoErase a straight lineCl
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You can create a selection by using
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• Use all layers — searches for
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To hide or view the selection marqu
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You can also clear a selection, whi
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Layers are like separate sheets tha
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Using the Layers paletteThe Layers
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2 When the name appears highlighted
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Moving layers on the canvasYou can
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RainbowtabSwatchestabForeground and
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Choosing colors by using the Color
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You can access recently used colors
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PresetsPreview windowsColor boxRand
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Caching along the left side, and in
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To add a picture frameYou can add a
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Autumn leavesArt groupSports ballsE
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2 On the Tool Options palette, choo
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To create text1 On the Tools toolba
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Important! You cannot edit the char
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To delete textAnti-aliasing may inc
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your images, with the folder name a
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For more information about printing
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Thumbnails of the open images appea
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effectsapplying photo effects . . .
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