ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces Paint Shop Pro Photo’s basic and sophisticated picture-editing features.
Opposite. You can customize the Paint Shop Pro Photo interface to suit your workflow. The top screen shows most of the available toolbars and palettes. Ordinarily, you wouldn’t display them all at once like this as you don’t need them all the time and they clutter up the screen. The bottom screen shows the default workspace. Top frame: (a) Menu bar. (b) The Standard toolbar contains some of the most frequently used commands. (c) Tool Options, the operational powerhouse of every tool in Paint Shop Pro Photo. It controls how each particular tool works: its opacity, density, tolerance to change, and so on. (d) The Tools toolbar contains all the stuff you’d need to make physical changes to a picture like paintbrushes, erasers, and so on. (e) The Photo toolbar has tools specifically for enhancing digital photos or scans. (f) The Effects toolbar is for applying special actions to an image or selection. (g) The Script toolbar plays pre-recorded scripts on the currently active image. Use the Script toolbar for recording your own customized scripts. (h) The Script Output palette records everything that goes into or replays from the Script tool. (i) The Web toolbar provides tools designed for getting the best quality and download performance from images destined for the Internet. (j) The new Organizer is integrated into the workspace as a functional palette providing a quick means of accessing, organizing and opening images on your hard disk. (k) Use the Learning Center to quickly find your way about. (l) Brush Variance adds an incredible degree of behavioral control over drawing and paint tools. (m) The Materials palette is used for selecting foreground and background colors for all the paint and drawing tools. You can also add texture and gradients to the color mix, just as if it were a painter’s mixing palette. (n) The History palette allows you to step backwards and selectively delete earlier edits. (o) The Overview palette indicates, at a glance, how much the current image has been enlarged and over what section the main picture window is displaying – useful for when working at large picture magnifications. (p) The Histogram palette displays the spread of tones captured in the displayed picture. Clicking the checkboxes brings up individual color channel information. (q) This is the main picture window displaying the picture that is currently open. (r) This is the Layers palette. It displays essential information on the types of layers in a document, their order and status. (s) Photo trays can be used to make collections of images from other folders without the need to copy them. (t) The Task bar displays vital information on how each selected tool works, as well as data on the image that’s currently displayed in the main picture window.
