PAINT SHOP PRO 9
© Copyright Moon's Designs August 17, 2004
Last Updated December 5, 2006 10:55 AM
ONLINE
LESSONS
for PSP9
PSP9 CLASSROOM
Click on the above link and learn more about the online classes in the PSP Classroom, presented by Moon's Designs.
Winter/Spring Session for The PSP Classroom begins
February 12, 2007
Registration is now open! Registration closes on
February 5, 2007
Beginners 101
Beginners 102
Beginners 103
Intermediate 101
Intermediate 102
Advanced 101
Advanced 102
We
also have classes for PSP8 :-)
JASC has come out with not one, but TWO new versions of Paint Shop Pro ~~ Paint Shop Pro 9 and Paint Shop Pro Studio.
I was privileged to be a Private Beta tester, prior to the release for Public Beta testing, for PSP9. This page will contain information regarding PSP9 and I will have some tutorials up for this version as soon as I can. As many of you know, I recently moved from California to the Great State of Texas and it was a BIG move ~smiles~ so please bear with me as I get everything organized and some tutorials written for you. PSP Studio is a new application for those who want to learn how to make graphics and edit their photographs without the hassle of learning some really complicated things. You can learn more about PSP Studio by going HERE.
What’s new with version 9? There are new filters to help edit your photographs, there are art tools that allow you to create digital art that will emulate real-life painting styles, there is new shape tools and improved text tool and a displacement map filter that allows you to create 2 and 3 dimensional surface effects. Some of the new tools include a History Palette that allows you to do a selective undo, something that users have been asking for a long time – what this means is that you can choose which step you want to undo without it affecting any of the following steps! There is now a resource manager that allows you to organize your resource files by projects or subjects and in printing there are a number of new templates for you to choose from and you can even add text captions to your photo layouts! Let’s see how some of these new items work. There won’t be tutorials per se but I will show you a few things that you can accomplish with some of the new features!
For those of you who work with photographs, be it digital or regular camera’s, PSP9 has some exciting new features. There is the Digital Camera Noise Removal Filter that will scan the photo and will remove noise while preserving textures. To see an example how this works click HERE.
The Backlighting filter helps compensate for over-exposed areas surrounding the subject of the photo while the Fill Flash filter corrects the underexposure of shadows in a photo. You can see some examples of this by clicking HERE.
While you can still create shapes and objects using the Pen Tool and the Preset Shapes tool, PSP9 now offers 3 new tools (Rectangle, Ellipse, and Symmetric Shape) that gives you all of the controls needed to create your own buttons, banners, or custom shape. You can learn a little more about these three exciting new tools HERE.
AS I WRITE TUTORIALS FOR PSP9 THEY WILL BE ON A SEPARATE INDEX PAGE FOR TUTORIALS. YOU MAY FIND THE TUTORIALS HERE
I will be producing a Getting Started with PSP 9 CD set along with a Moving Upt to PSP9 CD set. These will be a minimum of 2 disks and possibly a 3 disk set. The target date for these CD's is Mid-December. Getting Started with PSP9 will retail for $39.95 and Moving Up to PSP9 will retail for $52.95 after December 15th. You can pre-order these and receive a 40% discount by ordering prior to December 15th. . Getting Started with PSP9 is geared for the newcomer to PSP and those who have not used PSP8. Moving Upt o PSP9 is geared for those who have used PSP8 and are upgrading to PSP9. If you would like to pre-order this set please click HERE.
There are many more new exciting features to PSP9 and I will have more for you as soon as I can. Make sure you are signed up for my Moon's Designs Updates list in order to be the first to receive updated information. Just fill out the form below.