Photoshop in a Nutshell

This concise reference text details Photoshop 5's powerful features and describes every tool, command, palette, and sub-menu, plus common uses and misues of each.

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This concise reference text details Photoshop 5's powerful features and describes every tool, command, palette, and sub-menu. Each item is accompanied by a list of its most common uses and misues. The book also incloudes step-by-step techniques for common uses and experience-based advice and solutions for common misuses. The information is organized in an encyclopaedic format, following the structure of Photoshop iteslf. The text also includes the following: an intensive study of Photoshop's new ability to handle and create colour profiles, including real-world examples and troubleshooting techniques; information on colour-correcting tools that include more cause-and-effect descriptions of image adjusting versus the final on-screen or printed piece; an updated techniques appendix that still contains nearly 200 step-by-step items; and an updated list of every Photoshop keyboard shortcut.