Paint Shop Pro Web Techniques by Michael T. Clark

Master Paint Shop Pro as a Web graphics tool – then learn how to put the results into action.
– Step-by-step tutorials teach you how to harness the power of Paint Shop Pro as a Web graphics tool
– Goes beyond graphics creation to show how to put your graphics into action through JavaScript, Animated GIFs, Shockwave, and other graphics techniques
– Learn Web page design tips from an award-winning Web designer
– Full-color examples bring these techniques to life, showing you how things actually look

Paint Shop Pro is becoming an increasingly popular graphics tool for creating images for the Web. As the power of Web images increase through background tiles, moving images, and sheer volume of images through buttons and icons, so has the power of Paint Shop Pro. In Version 4 of Paint Shop Pro, JASC has added many new functions to the core program that will aid Web developers in doing their job effectively and quickly. Some of these new features include built-in special effects, full-featured masking, enhanced user-defined filters, transparency and alpha channel support, GIF and PNG transparency, and utilization of third-party plug-ins.

Paint Shop Pro Web Techniques comprehensively covers Paint Shop Pro as a tool for creating Web graphics. As well, Paint Shop Pro Web Techniques goes beyond graphics tutorials to show Web developers how to implement their graphics with JavaScript, Shockwave, Animated GIFs, background tiles, interface design, and many other graphical uses. This feature – unique to techniques-based Web graphics books – will be valuable for Web developers because most of them do not prepare graphics for their site exclusively – they also implement the endresult for the Web page.

Paint Shop Pro Web Techniques is a step-by-step Web graphics techniques book that teaches readers how to effectively use Paint Shop Pro for their work. The information does not stop at how to use Paint Shop Pro, but goes beyond to show readers how to incorporate their graphics in many different Web-based technologies.