Photo Restoration and Retouching Using Corel PaintShop Photo Pro, 2nd Edition

Fully revised to include coverage of the new features of PaintShop Photo Pro, Photo Restoration and Retouching Using Corel PaintShop Photo ™ Pro, Second Edition teaches you how to use PaintShop Photo Pro’s plethora of top-notch photo editing tools to retouch, enhance, and restore your photographs. You’ll benefit from the practical techniques and insider tips shown in this book, regardless of your skill level. After a brief introduction to PaintShop Photo Pro and other helpful topics such as scanning and organizing, you’ll dive into detailed photo studies that showcase new and old photos alike. By examining actual photos from the author’s collection, you’ll learn how to retouch or restore digital, scanned, color, and black-and-white photos. Each study teaches you how to tackle specific problems, shows you the pros and cons of different techniques, and concludes with a fully restored or retouched photo. You’ll learn how to do things like repair cuts and scratches, remove dust, blemishes, take out red-eye, enhance color, brightness, and contrast, remove distractions, correct perspective and lens distortion, and more. You’ll even discover how to retouch people, enhance good photos, and explore ways to tackle “impossible” photos.