Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 is an affordable yet powerful graphics program. With automatic photo fixes or precision editing controls for fine-tuning, both novice and professional alike can take charge of this application. Create and work with bitmapped or scalable vector graphics and use "life like" art media tools, effects and filters as well. In this tutorial, VTC author Robert Correll, teaches the essentials, starting with the interface, tool sets, palettes and organizer before moving on to demonstrate more advanced drawing and painting techniques, photo retouching, special effects, masks, scripting and more.