ABSTRACT
This chapter explains how to use PaintShop Pro X6’s tools to improve digital photos that suffer from common problems like incorrect exposure, or are simply a bit dull and lifeless and need polishing up. PaintShop Pro X6 has a selection of tools like Smart Photo Fix and Color Balance which do most of the work for you and make it easy to get good results with very little effort. You’d have read in Chapter 1 that there are two workspaces designed for this kind of work. We’ll begin by looking at practical things you can do to improve your photos using the Adjust workspace before moving on to explain in detail what kind of tools are available in the Edit workspace and how to make the best use of them. Later in the chapter we’ll look at some of the more advanced tools for enhancing image quality like Hue/Saturation/Lightness, Levels, Histogram Adjustment, the Unsharp Mask filter and High Pass Sharpen filter.
