Corel Paint Shop Pro X Digital Darkroom is a light-hearted tutorial approach to using Paint Shop Pro in exactly the way home users want to use it...to manipulate their own images in ways that a local photo lab often does to create both practical and comical projects. Readers will be treated to getting their feet wet and their hands dirty actually using the program, to complete a variety of projects. They'll learn about key Paint Shop Pro tools almost without trying. Presented in full color, the projects include a good mixture of traditional and more contemporary projects. Readers indulge in shrinking the kids, performing digital plastic surgery, modifying vehicles, creating creatures the tabloids would love to profile, altering pets, creating trading cards and calendars, combining images to create once-in-a-lifetime shots; dropping people into places they've never been; challenging Mother Nature with unique perspectives; creating holiday magic; creating photo montages, and even doing some traditional photo manipulation. Author T. Michael Clark provides careful instruction that allows novices and more experienced Paint Shop Pro users to complete the projects and enjoy their experience with Paint Shop Pro X.