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Ever hear of the 'sticky' factor ?
Most webmasters look for tools to get visitors to stay on their website longer - that's called the sticky factor and Barbara Feldman's e-book will help.I found 'How to Add Games to Your Site' absolutely worth the cost. Even a non-programmer like me was able to put it to use and at the same time had fun doing it! Ho! Ho! Ho!

How To Add Games To Your Site
Barbara J. Feldman's guide to adding games to websites is in teacher's terms a "Task-Analysis" of the step-by step procedures to enhance any website with fun and educational games. Her precise style and clarity in expressing technical terms will guide even the beginner "webster" to gaming success at thewebsite of one's choice.

Comprehensive Guide to Adding Games to any Site
This e-book offers a step by step instruction on How To Add Games To Your Site.
My interest in this material was fostered by the usefullness of this tool, as a marketing feature on my web site.
Barbara Feldman explains it all in easy to use format, and explicit directions to boot.
The call to Parents to help their kids build games, and their educational value, in doing so, was an unexpected creative bonus.
Thank you for the opportunity to say how pleased I am with this product.
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It's good to see that even mature applications can benefit from innovative thinking--Jasc has improved the latest PaintShop Pro in several areas.

PaintShop Pro is one of the original graphics editors, stretching back over 10 years. This latest version of the program features a new interface, which is more logically organized. Gone are the cumbersome floating palettes, so much a feature of earlier iterations. The tool options palette, for example, is now a context-sensitive ribbon under the menu bar. Lifting a leaf out of the CorelDraw handbook, the colour palette and several others have been rearranged as dockers on the right-hand side of the screen, too.

The painting engine itself has been rewritten, to give smoother control over your brushstrokes and it's now quite possible to do delicate work with the mouse, where before a graphics tablet might have been necessary.

Several new tools have been introduced and others have been enhanced, so they’re equally useful to the casual photo retoucher and the professional digital artist. A couple of examples are the red-eye removal and erase-to-background tools. Red-eye removal calls up a two-pane dialog, for editing on the left and preview on the right. After highlighting each eye in turn and selecting the color and hue you want it to have, the result can be a very natural looking pair of irises.

Erase-to-background enables you to paint away any part of a photo and leave just the unpainted parts as a foreground image. It's more intelligent than a simple eraser and detects line edges, so works particulraly well on high-contrast subjects. Other new tools include warp and mesh warp brushes

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This Dummy Found It Useful :)
Paint Shop Pro 8 For Dummies by David Kay helped this dummie a good bit :) . Being a "Newbie" to Paint Shop Pro 8 I was totally lost. This book starts with the basics such as downloading your pictures to the more complicated such as turning a photo into a painting. It has been a great help to me. The reason I am giving it 4 stars instead of 5 is that I have found it lacking in the one area I purchased it for and that is simple photo editing. Several tools and techniques are not explained in detail and/or not at all. But overall if you are a novice to Paint Shop Pro 8 as I was you will find it more than beneficial.

Decent but could use some work
Ok here is what I consider the skinny.If you have not used Paint Shop Pro before, then this book can help you get started.It is not a tutorial type of book.It tries to explain how the tools are used and what does some of the settings do.

If you have used Paint Shop Pro before, then you may want it for a reference.I do not like the way that the authors dove away from some of the tools.

Unlike their opinion, I found some of the tools VERY useful in correcting photos and should be explained.For example, they do not explain the dodge/burn tools.I knew what these tools do but the authors attitude was you won't need them.That may be true for someone just wanting to use the program for quick corrections butit is used alot in retouching.

Overall, the authors did explain why some of the tools behavior which helps understand why something did not work as you had expected.I feel that this is a good beginners book if like I stated before, you are not looking for a tutorial type of book.

Editorial Review

The Nikon Coolpix 2000 is a bold step for Nikon, because it further broadens Sony's digital range as the manufacturer moves from top-end SLR cameras and prosumer models into the popular point-and-shoot arena dominated by Kodak and Fuji.

The Coolpix 2000 shares many of the design cues with the recent 2500 with a silver finish and metallic blue accent around the lens and the absence of a normal optical rangefinder. Instead, as with the 2500, Nikon has chosen to ensure that the LCD viewer on the rear of the camera is of sufficient quality to be used in all conditions, including bright sunlight. It has also ensured that the camera will run comfortably on four AA alkaline batteries. Unlike the 2500, the Coolpix 2000's lens does not rotate into the body of the camera--it does, however, have an automatic lens cover.

The Coolpix 2000 is not the smallest 2-megapixel camera we’ve seen. However, it has a nicely rounded body and will fit comfortably in the pocket. Controls are straightforward and comprise shutter release, power slide, mode dial, zoom controls, menu navigation, and buttons for self timer, macro, and flash. The modes include party/indoor, backlight, portrait, night portrait, and beach/snow. We found that when chosen carefully, these modes would significantly improve the quality of the final image compared with the Auto setting.

The Coolpix 2000 scores highly in two areas--image quality and value for money. It takes excellent pictures in most conditions. The colors are accurate and the images crisp. This must be due to the quality of the Nikkor lens and the in-camera processing.

The Coolpix 2000 offers a lot of bang for the buck, providing many of the features found on Nikon's high-end range. For instance, despite the Coolpix 2000's many automated features, you can still adjust exposure and metering as well as manually set white balance and in-camera sharpening. Nikon has also included its Best Shot Selector, which takes a series of images while the shutter is depressed and then saves the sharpest to the flash card--this can produce better images more reliably without using up your memory.

The Coolpix 2000 is supplied with a quick start guide, a comprehensive paper manual, strap, 16 MB CompactFlash card, four AA alkaline batteries, AV cable, USB cable, software CD, and reference CD. The basic image transfer software supplied is the excellent and straightforward Nikon View 5. This provides an interface to the camera to upload images, and then organize and view them. --Nick Baxter

Pros:

• Excellent and affordable point-and-shoot digital camera
• Very automated, but also offers many manual controls
• Nikkor lens produces crisp images and accurate colors
• LCD performs well, even in sunlight

Cons:

• Doesn't have the cool twisting effect of the Coolpix 2500
• Included 16 MB memory is a good start, but you'll need a higher capacity card

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