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Discover what you can do with paint- not the real, liquid, messy kind you can blob on a linen canvas, but the virtual kind you can apply with your digital paintbrush on your computer display. The Danbury Area Computer Society will present Jasc's Paint Shop Pro on April 6 at its general meeting at the Danbury Hospital Auditorium. Come and see what you can create.

Paint Shop Pro, the leading producer of graphics and multimedia, is a painting and image-manipulation program that enables business and home users to manipulate images with ease of use, speed, and affordable functionality. The program features a complete collection of painting and selection tools and offers multiple layering options. It also permits image adjustments and enhancements as well as Web support and intuitive animation.

Paint Shop Pro efficiently creates and adds outstanding visual impact to any type of business document. It easily imports, enhances, and exports a wide range of pictures with a variety of digital imaging devices. It designs and produces dynamic, optimized Web graphics that stand out and get noticed. It also quickly opens, converts, and saves over 40 different types of graphic file formats.

DACS is the computer user group of the Greater Danbury area. Its general meetings, which take place the first Tuesday of each month at the Danbury Hospital auditorium, 24 Hospital Avenue, are open to the public. Meetings start at 6:30 p.m. with casual networking. At 7 p.m. members can ask their most pressing computer questions during Random Access. The featured presentation starts at 8 p.m.

DACS members include beginners, intermediates, and expert users. Special Interest Groups (SIGs) that cover specific computer topics from Web page building to Windows and Macintosh meet throughout the month. Check the calendar on the DACS Web site or in the monthly newsletter, dacs.doc, for the dates, or contact a friendly SIG leader to find out about the topic for the next meeting. SIG meetings will answer many of your computer queries. You can also reach DACS at 203 748-4330. Coming on May 4: Y2K Up and Personal, How the Year 2000 bug will affect individuals? Be sure to come to discover what steps you can take to protect yourself, your family, and your assets.