Corel PHOTO-PAINT 9: The Official Guide

By David Huss

Corel "Photo-Paint" regularly beats out its main competitor, Adobe PhotoShop, and costs less than half the price. The Only Corel-endorsed guide to "Photo-Paint". Fully explains basic to advanced... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0072119853
• ISBN13: 9780072119855
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 771 Pages
• Weight: 3.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

good books at great prices

Tech manuals have become very expensive. Used book are a fraction of the cost of new ones. A great way to save money

A very good book

This book is very good for beginers to Corel Photo-Paint 9 . The writing style of the auther is very amusing and it cover all the thing you need to know and then some more. my only complaint is that the auther could add some pictures of the buttons he is talking about because sometimes it takes a while to understand to whice button he refers.

Great Tutorial and Reference

When I first received this book, I was able to start with hands on training...thanks to the detailed explanations in each chapter. This was the first actual reference to using Photo Paint that I have seen, and so far it's been the only one. Huss has done a super job presenting the projects and explanations of how to use the tools in Photo Paint, shortcuts, as well as amazing masking techniques that will encourage you to want to experiment more on your own with the tools. I've learned how to improve my photo editing and also how to make a 1 dimensional object appear to be 3 dimensional from this book. I can honestly say that this was a great investment, and I highly recommend it to anyone who truly desires to improve their artistic techniques using Photo Paint.

Surprise

The standard view in the business is that nothing beats Photoshop when it comes to image editing. I have used PhotoPaint occasionally and was impressed. But while reading this book I was in for a surprise. The author really makes good on the claim "PHOTO-PAINT beats out its main competitors and costs less than half the price." Thus, this is one of the cases were reading the book really tells you more than you could find out easily by playing around with the software.

A Great Textbook

This is the way to write a texbook! The Users Guide that comes with the program is as dry as old bones. Mr. Huss makes learning a difficult subject very easy and painless. In the past, I bought Photo-Paint5, could not learn how to use it. Someone on the internet said Photo-Paint 6 was much easier, so I bought it also. I gave up in total frustration. Mr Huss starts from the beginning and explains the techniques from scratch until the problems are solved and working. The only problem is with my memory and me. Now, I will go back to the beginning of the book, and I know that all the information is there for the taking. Only chapter that could stand an improvement is the one on creating elements for the web. All in all, this is a great book from which to learn Photo-Paint 9.