Fundamentals of Paint Shop Pro X

Objectives

Paint Shop Pro is an image manipulation application, easier to use but sharing many of the features of more expensive and memory hungry competitors. This one day beginners course is designed to give delegates the knowledge and confidence to prepare imagery for use in both a print and web environment.


Pre-requisites:

Experience of the Windows operating system or previous attendance on the equivalent training course.


Course Includes:

A comprehensive set of reference notes covering course topics, follow-up telephone support and, for training on Transmedia premises, lunch and refreshments.


Course Outline


Introduction & Paint Shop Pro basics


· Toolbars, Palettes adn the workspace
· Bringing images into Paint Shop Pro, including capturing an image and looking at Paint Shop Pro's browser


Images and effects


· Creating images
· Working with graphics tools
· Understanding Layers
· Understanding Adjustment Layers
· Filters, effects
· Touching up photos
· Colour correcting photos
· Colouring images
· Saving images for the web
· Creating transparent gifs
· Using Picture Tubes






Text


· Looking at text images
· Drop shadow
· Tricks and tips
· Textures
· Bending text to curves


Animation


· Using Animation Shop
· Basic introduction to animation using the animation wizard to create a simple animated graphics for use on a website