Two-Zone and Three-Zone Adjustments
This paper shows how you can enhance your images using the zone adjustment transformations. These transformations divide your image into brightness zones and let you vary contrast, brightness and saturation of each zone independently. The result is better local contrast and more vibrancy in your images.

HDR/Stack Images Transformation
This paper shows how you can cover extremely wide dynamic ranges by 'sandwiching' multiple images of the same scene shot at different exposures.

Sharpening Images
This document discusses your choice of sharpening methods, including the new Bilateral Sharpen and helps you to quickly zero in on the optimum settings.

Using the Advanced Sharpen Transformation
This document is an advanced tutorial on using the advanced sharpen feature first introduced in Picture Window 3.5.

Color Balancing Techniques
This document is an advanced tutorial on color balancing photographs with Picture Window. It covers the new features of the color balance transformation in PWP 5.0.

Color Management Terms
A glossary of color management terms that can be used as a reference or simply browsed.

Color Management
This document provides a straighforward explanation of color management and discusses related PWP features, including tips on the new monitor curves feature.

Q-13 Grayscale Target
This target provides a 'wedge' of 20 evenly-spaced grayscale patches ranging from white to black. The target is stored in a 24 bit file to make it subject to color management. It is intended to be used with the Monitor Curves feature described in white paper above.

Colorizing B&W Photos
This document is an advanced tutorial on colorizing black and white photos with Picture Window.

Dodging and Burning
This document is an in-depth tutorial describing a number of different techniques for lightening or darkening images with Picture Window.

Creating Drop Shadows
This document describes how to use Picture Window to place offset shadows behind text, rectangles and objects with irregular boundaries.

Using Curves and Histograms
This document describes and shows you how to use curves and histograms to adjust brightness, contrast and dynamic range, and how to create a variety of special effects.

Using the Layout Transformation
This document describes and shows you how to use Picture Window's Layout transformation to create album pages, business cards, ad layouts, etc.

Creating and Using Masks
This document is an advanced tutorial on the mask feature of Picture Window. It also describes how to use mask tools and transformations. It goes details using masks with the Composite transformation to combine images.

Registering and Distorting Images
This document describes how to use the Composite transformation to register multiple images of the same subject and how to use the multipoint alignment feature in Picture Window Pro to create freehand distortions of images.

Image Retouching Techniques
This document is an advanced tutorial on using Picture Window's freehand retouching tools.

Sharpening Images
This document is an advanced tutorial on sharpening images with Picture Window. See also Advanced Sharpen.pdf above.

Text Effects
This document describes a number of techniques for applying text to images and creating special effects based on text.

How to Vignette
This document describes a number of techniques for creating vignettes.