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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Getting Acquainted with Paint Shop Pro X | |
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| Meet Paint Shop Pro for the First Time | |
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| What Computer Hardware Do I Need? | |
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| Should I Upgrade or Replace My Hardware? | |
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| Installing Paint Shop Pro X | |
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| Changing the File Format Associations | |
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| Installing the Other Programs on the CD | |
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| Keeping Paint Shop Pro Up to Date | |
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| New Features of Paint Shop Pro X | |
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| A New Learning Center | |
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| New Photo Features | |
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| A New User Interface | |
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| What's New Under the Hood | |
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| Paint Shop Album 6 | |
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| Video Tutorials | |
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| Special Effects and Picture Tubes | |
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| Tour the Paint Shop Pro X Workspace | |
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| Windows and Dialog Boxes | |
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| Toolbars | |
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| Taking Control of Your Palettes | |
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| Auto-Hiding Palettes and Toolbars | |
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| Menus | |
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| Shortcut Keys | |
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| Set Up Shop | |
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| Discover the Toolbars | |
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| Customizing Paint Shop Pro | |
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| Customizing the Toolbars | |
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| Customizing the Menus | |
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| Additional Toolbar and Menu Options | |
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| Creating Your Own Workspace | |
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| Saving Your Workspace | |
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| Loading a Custom Workspace | |
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| Preferences | |
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| General Program Preferences | |
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| File Format Preferences | |
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| File Format Associations | |
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| File Locations | |
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| Autosave Settings | |
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| Resetting Application Preferences | |
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| Color Management | |
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| Getting Pictures into Paint Shop Pro | |
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| Bringing Images into Your Computer | |
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| Where Digital Pictures Come From | |
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| Connecting a Digital Camera to Your Computer | |
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| Moving Digital Camera Pictures into the Computer | |
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| Downloading with Corel Photo Downloader | |
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| USB Settings of Your Camera | |
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| Moving Pictures Without Photo Downloader | |
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| Using the Microsoft Scanner and Camera Wizard (XP Only) | |
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| Moving Pictures Using a Card Reader | |
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| Transferring Pictures Using My Computer | |
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| Using the Browser Palette to Move Pictures | |
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| Customizing the Browser | |
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| Picture Management Suggestions | |
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| Using Folders to Categorize Photos | |
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| Naming Pictures-A Real Timesaver | |
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| Scanning with Paint Shop Pro | |
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| Scanning Basics | |
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| Preparing to Get the Best Scan | |
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| Scanning a Picture into Paint Shop Pro | |
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| Capturing Pictures from Your Computer Screen | |
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| Setting Up Screen Captures | |
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| Using Windows' Own Screen Capture Capability | |
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| Photo Editing | |
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| Simple Image Editing and Printing | |
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| Why You Need to Correct and Enhance Photos | |
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| Preparing Your Photos for Sharing | |
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| Rotating Your Photos in Paint Shop Pro | |
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| Straightening a Crooked Photo | |
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| The Effects of Rotating a Bitmap Image | |
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| The Importance of Photo Composition | |
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| Why You Should Crop Before Doing Anything Else | |
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| Setting the Zoom for Viewing | |
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| Cropping a Photo | |
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| Digital Pictures Have Their Limits | |
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| Automatic Photo Correction | |
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| Applying One Step Photo Fix | |
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| Printing Photos | |
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| Sorting Out Today's Color Printers | |
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| Using the Media That Produces the Best Results for You | |
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| Set Paint Shop Pro Print Settings | |
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| Correcting Photographic Problems | |
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| Fine-Tuning Your Color | |
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| Color Casts and Their Causes | |
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| More Than Just the Blues | |
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| Before You Begin Any Correction | |
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| Using Adjustment Dialog Boxes | |
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| Dialog Box with a View | |
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| Changing How Your Preview Operates | |
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| The Proof Is in the Preview | |
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| Randomize | |
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| Saving Your Settings | |
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| Color and Tonal Correction for Raw Format Files | |
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| The Automatic Adjustment Tools | |
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| Removing Color Casts with Color Balance | |
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| How Color Temperature Works | |
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| Adding Some Zip to a Photo | |
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| Making Colors Richer | |
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| Fixing Red-Eye | |
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| A Quicker Way to Remove Red-Eye | |
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| Other Touch-Ups You Can Do | |
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| Making Eyes Brighter | |
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| The Makeover Tool | |
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| Why You Need Sharpening | |
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| Chromatic Aberration | |
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| Lens Distortion and Correction | |
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| Correcting Barrel Distortion | |
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| Dealing with the Noise | |
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| Removing Digital Noise from Pictures | |
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| Repairing and Restoring Photographs | |
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| Preparing Your Image or Document | |
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| Laying Image Flat on the Glass | |
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| Preparing to Restore Photos | |
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| Scanning for Restoration | |
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| Enlarging the Original | |
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| Using the Highest Quality Scan Setting | |
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| Scanning the Original, Warts and All | |
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| Saving Photos Using a Lossless File Format | |
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| Repairing Tears and Creases | |
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| Removing Large Stains | |
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| Cleaning Up Dirty Backgrounds | |
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| Another Way to Remove Stains | |
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| Recovering Old Color Photos | |
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| Bringing Back the Color | |
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| Creating Original Images Using Paint Shop Pro X | |
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| Create a Photo Montage | |
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| The Power of Selections | |
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| Understanding Selections | |
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| Rounding Up the Selection Tools | |
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| Expanding a Photograph Using Selection | |
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| Feathering the Selections | |
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| Rounding Up the Selection Tools | |
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| The Freehand Selection Tool | |
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| Magic Wand Tool Magic | |
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| Making Selections with Stylus or Mouse? | |
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| Getting the Best Selections (in the Least Amount of Time) | |
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| Making a First Rough Cut Selection | |
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| Zoom and Move | |
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| Adding Some and Taking Some | |
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| Fine-Tuning Your Selections | |
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| Keeping Your Final Objective in Mind | |
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| Finding the Edge in the Dark | |
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| Let's Select Somebody | |
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| Saving and Loading Selections | |
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| Saving a Selection to the Alpha Channel | |
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| Using Other Sources of Selections | |
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| Creating Photo Montages | |
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| Making New Objects Appear Like They Belong | |
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| Recipes for Surrealism | |
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| Photo Montages Without Selections: Masks | |
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| Using a Mask to Make a Photo Montage | |
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| Using Masks Like Selections | |
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| Rearranging a Photo with the Clone Brush | |
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| Add Text to Your Images | |
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| Text, Plain and Simple | |
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| Text Tool Options | |
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| Using the Text Tool | |
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| Creating Special Text Effects | |
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| Transparent Text | |
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| Adding Picture Tubes to Text | |
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| Making Text Stand Out on a Complex Background | |
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| Creating Text Carved into a Background | |
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| Getting Creative with Paint Shop Pro X | |
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| Add Dazzling Effects to Your Images | |
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| Enhancing Your Photos with Picture Frames | |
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| Creating Your Own Picture Frames | |
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| Adding Photo Borders with Masks | |
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| Using Picture Tubes | |
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| Creating Your Own Picture Tubes | |
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| Creating Art from a Photo | |
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| The Brush Strokes Effect | |
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| Posterize | |
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| "Painting" with Noise Reduction | |
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| "Sketching" with Find All | |
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| Understanding the Vector Tools | |
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| What's a Vector Object? | |
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| A First Look at the Vector Tools | |
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| Working with Preset Shapes | |
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| Mastering the Ellipse, Rectangle, and Symmetric Shape Tools | |
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| Ellipses and Circles | |
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| Rectangles and Squares | |
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| Symmetric Shapes | |
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| Drawing with the Pen Tool | |
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| Drawing Straight Lines | |
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| Drawing Precise Curves | |
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| Drawing Freehand | |
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| Getting Creative with Vector Text | |
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| Creating Vector Objects from Text | |
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| Text on a Path | |
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| Using the Pick Tool | |
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| Selecting an Object with the Pick Tool | |
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| Resizing and Repositioning with the Pick Tool | |
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| Deforming with the Pick Tool | |
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| Changing an Object's Properties | |
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| Editing Vector Objects with the Pen Tool | |
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| Repositioning Nodes | |
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| Deleting and Adding Nodes | |
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| Project: Drawing a Key | |
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| Using Vectors to Create Raster Selections | |
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| Converting Vectors to Rasters | |
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| Digital Scrapbooking | |
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| Adding Photos to a Scrapbook Template | |
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| Making a Scrapbook Page from a Kit | |
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| Creating Your Own Scrapping Components | |
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| Papers, Mats, and Frames | |
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| Eyelets and Brads | |
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| Ribbons and Fibers | |
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| Ribbons | |
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| Fibers | |
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| Plug-In Filters for Scrappers | |
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| Third-Party Sources of Components | |
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| Art Media | |
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| Art Media Layers and Tools | |
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| Drawing on Art Media Layers (Dry Media) | |
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| Painting on Art Media Layers (Wet Media) | |
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| Turning Photos into Art with Trace | |
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| Using the Mixer | |
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| Customizing and Automation | |
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| Customizing the Paint Shop Pro Workspace | |
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| Modifying General Program Preferences | |
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| Changing File Locations | |
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| Rearranging the Workspace | |
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| Shwoing and Hiding Palettes and Toolbars | |
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| Docking and Undocking Palettes and Toolbars | |
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| Repositioning and Resizing Palettes and Toolbars | |
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| Using Rollups | |
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| Saving and Loading Workspaces | |
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| Modifying Toolbars and Menus | |
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| Changing Existing Toolbars and Menus | |
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| Creating Your Own Toolbars | |
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| Binding Commands to Keys | |
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| Scripting and Batch Processing | |
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| Running a Script | |
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| Running a Script from the Script Toolbar | |
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| Running a Script from the File Menu | |
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| Running a Script in Interactive Mode | |
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| Sources of Third-Party Scripts | |
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| Recording and Saving a Script | |
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| Modifying a Script | |
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| Using PSP's Script Editor | |
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| Editing a Script with a Text Editor | |
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| Binding a Script to an Icon | |
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| Renaming Multiple Files | |
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| Applying a Script to Multiple Files | |
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| Index | |