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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 | |