PAINT SHOP PRO 9 ON REVIEW

Written by BLUR LOTERIÑA


Do you want to create an artistic version of your photo? How about a program that allows you to undo individual steps that you applied onrepparttar image without affecting all other steps?

Paint Shop Pro 9 introduces two special effects filters,repparttar 107257 Displacement Map andrepparttar 107258 Radial Blur. The Displacement Map is a tool for creating 2D and 3D surface distortions whilerepparttar 107259 Radial Blur is used for creating blur effects including spin, twist and zoom. Withrepparttar 107260 Print Layout dialog, you will be able to add freeform text captions and title to your photo layouts usingrepparttar 107261 Text Options. The new Text tool options allow you to create vertical text and render small font sizes. For polygons and star shapes, you can userepparttar 107262 new Symmetric Shape tool that’s customizable.

Paint Shop Pro introduces another tool for digital camera users,repparttar 107263 Info palette. This palette is designed to showrepparttar 107264 EXIF data that digital cameras automatically store with their images. Examples of which are aperture and exposure. Paint Shop Pro 9 contains features to support unprocessed raw sensor data that are captured by advanced cameras. It also allows you to set customized white balance and exposure, as well as sharpening of settings for import.

You can now easily undo any individual editing step in a document’s history throughrepparttar 107265 use ofrepparttar 107266 Powerful Selective Undo. The History palette lists allrepparttar 107267 commands that you applied onrepparttar 107268 image. You can undo specific steps without affecting subsequent actions.

Setting up a Tape Backup Strategy for your Business

Written by Linus Chang


So you know a little bit about tape backup, but you're wondering how to set up a tape backup strategy for your business. Well, let's take a look at 3 simple steps to setting up a complete backup solution.

Step 1: Purchase your tape backup hardware

Firstly, purchaserepparttar tape backup hardware. If you need to perform file server backup (or Exchange Server backup or SQL Server backup) for small business, then one ofrepparttar 107256 following tape drives should suffice:

* Travan cartridge drive (up to 10 Gb) * DDS tape backup drive (up to 20 Gb) * DDS tape backup drive with hardware data compression (up to 40 Gb)

Then purchaserepparttar 107257 necessary tapes for your backup rotation strategy. A good Grandfather-Father-Child variation will require 10 tapes or 14 tapes.

Step 2: Purchase your tape backup software

When it comes to tape backup software, one option is to use NTBackup -repparttar 107258 standard Windows backup program. The problem with NTBackup is that it is too hard to use. While an expert should be able to schedule backup jobs using NTBackup, what you really want is something a novice can setup in minutes.

What you really want to do is invest in some quality backup software for your business? Well, if you run a small business, you'll want to avoid those expensive brands! They're designed for large corporations. You should really be looking for software for tape backup that does everything you need, but is affordable atrepparttar 107259 same.

Look for a backup program that's designed specially for small business instead. Look for a product that is advertised as being simple to use. Remember, you don't want software that requires an expert to run it. Download a trial version ofrepparttar 107260 backup software and try it out for a month or so. If everything works smoothly and you're happy withrepparttar 107261 product, go ahead and make a purchase!

Step 3: Continually perform your backups

So you've attachedrepparttar 107262 tape drive to your server and installedrepparttar 107263 software. You've configuredrepparttar 107264 software to run your tape rotation scheme and everything's raring to go. So how do you go about performing backups?

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