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ZeallSoft FunPhotor is fun and easy to use photo blending
software
ZeallSoft FunPhotor is fun and easy to use photo blending software.Put yourself, friends
and family members on $100 bills! Swap faces and bodies! Change yourself into an astronaut
or a personality on a poster. Change photos for practical jokes!
Corel Paint Shop Pro X photo editor
Corel Paint Shop Pro X (*est. $100) is the latest version of Paint Shop. This photo editor
was formerly published by Jasc Software, but was sold to Corel earlier this year. Many
reviews say Paint Shop Pro is close to Photoshop CS2 in functionality, without the
learning curve. PC World magazine says Paint Shop Pro is easier to use than Photoshop,
with an excellent red-eye removal tool and good background manipulation features. Paint
Shop Pro allows the user to work with multiple layers of the photo. This feature is common
in better photo-editing software, but not seen as often in less-robust photo editors.
Experts say it is easy to grow into Paint Shop Pro once you master the basics, as you are
not confined to the wizard system for editing photos. While some software forces you to
work only with a wizard (which takes you through a process, step by step), Corel lets more
adept users stray away from the handholding of a task wizard. Corel Paint Shop Pro X also
includes a photo organizer, Photo Album 6.
Image Editing
Images do not always come exactly as you wish to use them. You may need to do some
cropping, adjust their colors or luminosity, change their size, or modify their content.
For this lesson, you will download the images on this page and follow the directions to
change them using Photoshop, Photoshop Elements (a good buy on an academic discount) or
any of the many image editing tools available. You could also try Paint Shop Pro or Corel
Draw or Microsoft Photo Editor, or other image editors for PC or for the Mac; for instance
BME by SoftLogic for Macintosh or other Mac shareware. In fact, there are many programs
available, and one is usually included with the purchase of any scanner or digital camera.
Our directions will apply to Photoshop under Windows XP - for other software you will have
to make some minor adjustments, but the basic functions are always the same. We will be
producing final images in JPG format as these are best for compressed photos with many
colors and smooth transitions. Photoshop's own format is the best for working copies to
avoid losing quality over multiple saves. JPGs compress well, but the compression is
"lossy" - image quality is lost with each save. You should not use compression
until all of your editing is done and your final version of the photo is ready. Always use
your image editor to adjust image size; never adjust image size in your www page editor
(though it is possible to do this, it is not efficient).
To begin, check to make sure that your video display screen is adequate. Right click on
the desktop and select properties. Click on the settings tab and make sure that the color
palette is set higher than 256 colors (we prefer True color 32 bit [but 16 bit copor is
ok] and at least 800 x 600 desktop area [though on a big monitor higher resolutions will
work]). Click OK when you are satisfied - this may restart your computer under some
operating systems. Keep this Web page open, and open Photoshop (or whatever image editor
you are using) as well. You will be able to switch back and forth between the Web browser
and Photoshop to follow the directions while you complete the tasks. If you prefer, you
can print out the directions and work from paper.
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