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PaintShop Pro

Jeff Williamson
Northern Virginia Community College
http://www.nvcc.edu/home/nvwillj/paintshop_pro

PaintShop Pro is a well known, modestly priced (around $80) graphics package for Windows that offers, I dunno, maybe 90% of the functionality of the industry standard Adobe Photoshop (around $600) and more intuitive controls (e.g. paste commands, ability to work directly in native layered format or target formats).

A 30-day trial version of PSP can be freely downloaded. Should you buy the program, ask about the manual - some download sales only include an online version of the print manual, which is o.k., as long as you understand this (my students who bought this package did not). FWIW, I found the print manual pretty useful as manuals go. Some good comparison shopping sites for software are www.mysimon.com and beyond.com.

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Below are seven PSP tips sites, ranked by whim early one morning. 98% of the tips are about how to produce a particular effect; the JASC site seemed to be the only one to have limited information for new users.

PaintShop Pro Tips and Tutorials (at JASC)

http://www.jasc.com/tutorials.html

Chapter 5

http://c5.i-us.com/

PaintShop Pro Foundry

http://www.digital-foundry.com/index_paintshop.html

PSP Users Group

http://www.pspusersgroup.com/

Web Graphics on a Budget

http://mardiweb.com/web/

Jeff's (no relation) PSP Tips Page

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/2365/grab_bag_page.html

Introduction to PSP (Web Developer's Virtual Library)

http://Stars.com/Authoring/Graphics/Tools/PSP/TOC.html