Paint shop pro x8

[jerryk1949]

I recently upgraded to Paint Shop Pro X8 Ultimate which included the Corel After Shot 2 for editing raw photos. I am finding this program very complicated to use, can anybody give any suggestions on using this editing program

[rpcrowe]

I cannot give you any advice on Paintshop Pro but, there seem to be quite a few YouTube videos on that program maybe they will help!

https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...nt+Shop+Pro+X8

[D L]

Edit: Are you asking about Aftershot or Paintshop Pro? I wrote the following based on the question relating to Aftershot, but then I remembered your post subject

I'll leave this reply here in case you want to take full advantage of Aftershot, for the photo management component at least, if not raw editing:

One of the major drawbacks of Aftershot that I have found is the lack of community support (I am referring to the general Internet community here)


One source of help is the Corel User to User Web Board One of the moderator's of that forum "AFX", actually sells a guide to using the software. You'll see he will happily give full and detailed answers in the forum as well.

A generally accepted strength is the photo management capability of Aftershot.
Here is a link to a recommended workflow for downloading from camera and organising your photos
Scroll down to the fourth post. It is for an older version of the software but you get the idea and its good to get this sorted out early on.

As for raw editing, I learnt mostly by following the CiC editing workflow tutorial and then working out how to do it in Aftershot. I used the few available youtube videos for reference, as recommended by Richard.

Within Aftershot, the actual order that you do the edits is not important, as the software has a "fixed tool pipeline". However, the CiC tutorial works as a good logical sequence to follow for me.

[DanK]

I recently upgraded to Paint Shop Pro X8 Ultimate which included the Corel After Shot 2 for editing raw photos. I am finding this program very complicated to use, can anybody give any suggestions on using this editing program

I used to use an earlier version of this program, although I now use Photoshop instead. The bottom line is that any of these programs is very complicated, offering a wide array of features--including many that you may never use--and often several different ways of accomplishing the same thing.

So, asking for general suggestions really won't work. One option is to take it one step at a time. For example, a logical starting point might be learning how to control tonality (brightness, contrast, etc.) If you google, you will probably find some postings or videos that address this. Once you have tonality under control, you could move to something else, say, sharpening.

Another option is to look for materials, some of which won't be free, that provide a general, step-by-step introduction to the program. For example, Lynda.com, which I used a bit when I first switched to photoshop, offers training on using Paint Shop Pro. Googling "Paint shop pro training" without the quotes brought up a long list of sources.