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Welcome to this wrap up lesson where I'm going to have a few concluding remarks and summarize some of the things that I've shared with you over the course of this entire tutorial. I've got my organizer opened up and many or all of the photos and projects that I used to illustrated certain aspects of Paint Shop Pro and I'm just going to talk through a few of those as well as talk through just the outline that I use to help create all of this. Alright now back up at the top, first thing we did was look at reviewing Paint Shop Pro Photo and looking at the interface and palettes and tools and so forth. It's a complicated program and it requires knowledge to use it, you've got a bunch of menus followed by your tool options toolbar, you can create new files and load things in and use all of these tools over here. You've got palettes on the right hand side which you can turn on or off, every tool has presets and has parameters which show up in the tool options toolbar. We've got the organizer down here which shows up that you can organize and watch other folders on your hard drive. It's complicated you know, this is not like just checking email where you press get mail and it all works. Every one of these tools has specific pros and cons and how to use and what not to do and everything about it and things don't happen in a vacuum either. You look at complicated photos and artwork and you're trying to create a specific effect, then you have to bring all of your creativity to bear on the matter and then when you're done you have to decide how you want to distribute that. Would you like to save it for an office application where you have a specific resolution in mind? Do you want to email it? Do you want to export it as a JPG, a GIF or a PNG? Are you working on the Internet where you're using an image slicer to create graphics for your webpage? Do you want to create a picture tube out of this photo or use it as the basis of a picture frame? Really complicated, really complicated, but fun. I think one of the main things of working in Paint Shop Pro that I've enjoyed over the years is that its fun. It allows me to express my creativity, to be you know to be creative and technical at the same time and the end result is you see something, you accomplish something and its not just thin air, there's a real product that I create that I can look at and say you know I did that. So there's a whole host of things you can do in Paint Shop Pro. We've looked at drawing and painting, vector graphics, text, photo editing, web graphics. Did a photo project where we created an out of boundary effect, having to scroll here and find it, here's an example of one where we used a picture and manipulated the photo, created a couple of different layers here so that part of this photo could extend beyond the frame. That was a fun project. We looked at new features in the Paint Shop Pro X2 like the express lab, clicking here opens the express lab, we can access all of our favorite tools here and work just like we're in the main program only this focuses towards fixing the photos. HDR photo merge which is high dynamic range to create effects like this where taking a photo of a bright and very dark areas at the same time and it merges those together so that we can look at a composite of the exposure and also enhance the contrast. Here's some of the raw images of that. Here's this exposure is light and in fact it over exposes the outside in order to get this wood area of the pavilion properly exposed. Here again we're looking at a final product of a TIFF, in here we're looking at again darker exposures to get the outside to exposed correctly, all the way down to this one where you can see the outside very bright spots of the sky and the ground are exposed more closely to correct then say that or especially that. So that's HDR Photography and Paint Shop Pro has a nice little routine where you can bring things in through HDR Photo Merge. Alright also covered things like memory preference tweaks, file preferences, looked to different kind of file types and compression, odds and ends kind of things, where things are in the application, what folders their in from preferences, file locations, how to get to them, looked into different images operations like editing things in raw, resizing them, working with the canvas, as well as then adding borders and frames. We had to use our image menu, we can add a border to this photo, very simply. We can also add a picture frame, creates a nice little effect there. Also looked at different adjustments here, color sharpening strategies, histogram tools, color tools, advanced red eye removal which is always a problem, depth of field effects. Took a look at a photo project where I looked through several photos and adjusted exposure and color and noise removal. We dug deeper into the Effects Menu, looked to some of the balls and bubble effects, BMP maps, environment maps. We removed lens distortion, texture effects; I showed how to install some effects. Looked at type them, I'm just going to randomly open a photo here that just is interesting so you can look at while I talk. We have a type project where we had several type lessons, vector graphics, selections, layers, masks, scripting, covered creating your own resources which was one of my favorite sections and then using the resource manager and finally a project where we created a mask by creating a vector shape which then I used to create a selection from that and that file is in here somewhere, yep. You can see I used a lot of different material that I've worked with and created this over time in order to bring this information to you and I had a blast doing it. Alright that concludes this lesson which is a concluding remarks, a wrap up and review of everything we've covered.