Paint Shop Pro 7.0
Release Notes
Thank you for purchasing Jasc® Paint Shop Pro™ 7! Our newest release of Paint Shop Pro is packed with powerful new features and enhancements, including Jasc Animation Shop™ 3. Once you begin using these programs, we think you will see just how easy it can be to create Web graphics and enhance digital photos.
Please remember that this is a licensed version of Paint Shop Pro, and cannot be freely distributed. See the license agreement information included in this document for limits on copying this software and other important information.
CONTENTS
Changes in Paint Shop Pro 7.0
Changes in Animation Shop 3.0
Obtaining and Installing Direct Digital Camera Support
Direct Digital Camera Support and the Certified for Windows Logo
Technical Support
Manual Errata
Software License and Limited Warranty
Acknowledgments
We have added several great new features and enhancements to Paint Shop Pro 7.0. The most significant product changes are listed below. For a more detailed explanation of these features, please consult the Paint Shop Pro 7 Help file.
· Automatically adjust color balance, contrast, and saturation.
· Remove red-eye on people and animals.
· Restore damaged photos with Scratch Removal Tool.
· Adjustable Histogram enhances details without loss of information.
· Automatically improve video, scanned, and overly compressed images.
· Automatically remove noise, scratches, dust, or specks and improve crispness and impact.
· Vector shapes, lines, and text now support gradients, textures, and patterns on the stroke and fill.
· Brushes now support gradients, textures, and patterns.
· Align, distribute, arrange, group and resize vector objects.
· Create and save custom-styled lines with dots, dashes, and end-caps.
· Create and save custom shapes for reuse.
· Position more precisely with snap-to grids and guides.
· Experiment with over 25 new artistic and lighting special effects.
· Create professional-quality GIF animations with Animation Shop 3.
· Preview graphics in various Web file formats in up to three browsers.
· New PNG optimizer for high Web performance.
· An Image Mapper and Image Slicer with JavaScript rollover creation support.
· Repeat last command feature.
· Save and retrieve workspaces to manage projects.
· Quickly identify and select with thumbnail previews of Picture Tubes, Gradients, Textures, Patterns, and Preset Shapes.
· Navigate easier while in Zoom mode with the Overview Window Palette.
· Protect critical work with customizable Auto-Save.
· Easily view your adjustments with proofing, autoproofing, and reset options on most dialogs.
We have added several great new features and enhancements to Animation Shop 3.0. The most significant product changes are listed below. For a more detailed explanation of these features, please consult the Animation Shop 3 Help file.
· Integration of the Paint Shop Pro browser into Animation Shop, providing an intuitive manner for you to select image files to include in animations and open in the application.
· An Onionskin Preview mode allows you to preview an overlay of frames before and after the current frame for more precise animation editing and creation.
· A variety of frame and animation modification options have been added, including frame rotation options, a Mover tool, a color replacement command and floating text and image placement.
· New animation preview options, including enhancements to the Optimization Wizard and the ability to preview the current animation in your selected Web browser.
· A new Morph transition, for enhanced fade effects using customizable key points between frames.
· A new toolbar with VCR-style controls that allow you to play, fast-forward and rewind your animation.
· Support for reading MPEG-format video files.
· Enhanced integration between Animation Shop and Paint Shop Pro, including enhanced multiple-layer export and the ability to export all or part of an animation as a tube to be used with Paint Shop Pro.
Paint Shop Pro provides direct support for many popular digital cameras. A separate installation program for this support is included with the CD-ROM version of Paint Shop Pro. This installation program is also available for download from our Web site at www.jasc.com for customers who purchased the electronic download version of Paint Shop Pro. A list of supported cameras is also available at this location.
The CD-ROM version of Paint Shop Pro will create a Start Menu shortcut for the digital camera support installer in the Jasc Software\Utilities folder during program installation.
To install direct digital camera support, proceed as follows:
1. If you purchased an electronic download version of Paint Shop Pro, download the Jasc Software Digital Camera Support setup program.
2. Run the camera installation program by selecting the “Jasc Digital Camera Support” shortcut in the Jasc Software\Utilities folder of the Start Menu (CD-ROM version) or double clicking on the file you downloaded in step 1.
3. Select the appropriate camera from the list of available devices. By default, no cameras are selected in the setup program. To select the desired camera, click on the disk icon to display a menu of available installation options, then click the “This feature will be installed on local hard drive” option.
4. The installation program will install the necessary files for accessing the selected camera(s) and close after the installation is complete.
5. Once the desired support is installed, you can configure and access the camera using the Import>Digital Camera commands on Paint Shop Pro’s File menu.
Note: Kodak DC120 and DC2xx model cameras are supported internally and do not require this component.
Please note that although the Jasc Digital Camera Support component included with this product has been tested and operates properly under Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4, and Windows 2000, it does not carry the "Certified for Windows" logo. This add-on utility is not required to use this product under any supported platform.
Obtaining Technical Support
Technical support for Paint Shop Pro 7 and Animation Shop 3 can be obtained from:
Jasc Software, Inc.
PO Box 44997
Eden Prairie, MN 55344 USA
Voice: (952) 930-9171
Fax: (952) 930-9172
Internet:
Paint Shop Pro: psp7sup@jasc.com
Animation Shop: anm3sup@jasc.com
Web: www.jasc.com
International customers can also contact their regional master representative for technical support. To obtain contact information for your regional master representative, please see the International Representatives List page on our Web site at http://www.jasc.com/world.asp or contact our Technical Support department using the information provided above.
Please review the section below while using the program manuals for the latest product information.
· Chapter 4, pp. 52-3: The second bullet in the discussion on Saving Workspaces contains an error. Background grid information is not saved for each image when saving a workspace file. Background (or transparency) grid information is a global program setting. Also, the keyboard shortcuts cited in step 1 of saving a workspace and step 1 of loading a workspace are reversed.
· Chapter 5, p. 73: The term “Active Colors” should be “Active Styles” in the first sentence of paragraph 3.
· Chapter 6, p. 98: The word “toll” should be “tool” in the seventh item of the bulleted list discussing “Using the Noise Feature.”
· Chapter 7, p. 119: The topic on performing Highlight, Midtone, and Shadow adjustments was not updated for a program change. Please see the “Using the Highlight/Midtone/Shadow Dialog Box” in the program help file for an updated discussion.
· Chapter 8, p. 135: The first bullet under item 3 is incorrect. The Airbrush tool supports gradients and patterns. Select the desired settings in the Active Styles Panel on the Color Palette.
· Chapter 9, pp. 152-3, 155, 170: It is no longer necessary to hold down the mouse key after left-clicking on the Styles or Textures menus. These menus will stay open until either a style/texture is selected or either mouse button is pressed anywhere outside of the menus.
· Chapter 10, p. 173: The second bullet of step 2 in the discussion on making selections is incorrect. You must use the left mouse key when creating a selection.
· Chapter 8, p. 70: The third bullet of step 3 incorrectly instructs the reader to click the OK button to close the Recent Colors dialog box. When a color is selected in the Recent Colors dialog box, the dialog will close automatically.
· Chapter 8, p. 72: In step 6, the second sentence should read “Also, make sure that the “Antialias” and “Create as vector” checkboxes are marked.
· Chapter 8, p. 74: Due to late change in program functionality, this step should be replaced by the following: Select the Layers>Merge>Merge Visible command to create a single raster layer with transparency.
· Chapter 9, p. 78: In step 7, two additional tasks are necessary. First, set the Foreground/Stroke Style to “Null” and the Background/Fill Style to Solid Color, then select black as the fill color. You must also manually enter the value “38” in the Font Size field, since this point size is available with the defaults offered with the Times New Roman font.
· Chapter 9, p.82: In step 17, set the text size to “10.” The text size in the Text Entry dialog box incorrectly shows a value of 14.
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