An Insight Into Graphics (Paint Shop Pro 7.0)

Member Name: rozalynd

Product:	Paint Shop Pro 7.0
Date:	04/09/01 (60 review reads)
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Advantages: Visual impact, Great fun, Inexpensive

Disadvantages: Time consuming

Probably the biggest single thing that's changed in computing in the past decade is that it's become more visual. If you think back to how computers are portrayed in the movies, for example, it's nearly always glowing green text on a black background. But today's PC's love pictures; even office programs are capable of producing simple 3D images and bold, colourful text.

Also graphics and drawing programs have confronted their big problem-- people who can't draw (like me) they now offer shortcuts to make it easy for the artistically challenged.

There are a number of advantages of using a PC program to draw or paint. First, if you make a mistake, you can undo it, 2nd, because your not making a mess, they give you freedom to experiment,3rd you are not paying for expensive materials, you can play with different styles 9crayon, oils, airbrush, spraycan) on different kinds of electronic paper ( canvas, stone wood and so on). Drawing and painting programs come with electronis brushes that allow you to produce realistic paint like effects whether you fancy doing a water colour, or a simple pen and ink sketch.

They also include pre drawn shapes such as circles, squares, rectangles, lines, arrowheads etc, to name but a few.
They are clever at handling text too; you can bend and squeeze words into funny shapes, draw a wiggly line and then make any text you type follow it, you can add a shadow for neat 3D effects.

Finally, because Windows programs understand how to work together, you can easily take any drawing you've produced and incorporate it into another document, newsletter, spreadsheet or even a database in order to give it a more visual impact.
So go on, go and have a play with your graphics software and see what you can do.

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