COMPANY: Andrew Doubrovski | URL: http://simplephotoshop.com | TYPE: Flash videos | PLATFORM: Windows | PRICE: $12
The Video Guide To Paint Shop Pro course offers you an original method of a quick but total immersion into the program environment. The text-based tutorials are packed here with 60 full-sound movie clips* (total running time: about 2 hours), thus allowing you to combine all the possible learning methods - reading the book, watching the movies, and following the instructions.

Paint Shop Pro is a great yet affordable alternative to Photoshop. Some people say that Paint Shop Pro is "amateurish". However, most functions offered by Photoshop are also available in Paint Shop Pro. And even if you got used to Photoshop, you can put on a "Photoshop Skin" and continue using the familiar commands and shortcuts.

For vast majority of users, this set of tools proves to be more than sufficient. Actually, instead of purchasing the "industry standard" application you only have to learn the "industry standard" approach to image editing. Master Paint Shop Pro power and make every kind of thing Photoshop users do! "Video Guide to Paint Shop Pro" will speed up your study. By the time you complete this course you will have a working knowledge of the tools and functions that are pertinent to digital photography.

All video-tutorials are compatible with Corel Paint Shop Pro X, Paint Shop Pro Photo X1, and Paint Shop Pro Photo X2.

The first chapter of the video-book, "Concepts", is a quick overview of the program interface and the basic work principles intended for beginners. Just look around and have some feeling of working with the program.

The "Skills" chapter is devoted to the most essential techniques. Wthout knowing about color and tonal adjustments, layers, transformations, selecting and masking you give up the best and the most of this program. Furthermore, this chapter will show how to save your time and effort by automating the routine tasks by reducing your repetitive activity to a single click.

The 3rd chapter, "Recipes", is a collection of practical solutions for photographers and retouchers, showing some efficient combinations of various techniques described in the previous chapters.

*To play the embedded movies you need Macromedia Flash Player 6 or later.