This second edition of the Photoshop tutorial covers all the features and capabilities of the latest version of the software.

An accessible - yet detailed - step-by-step tutorial on the most recent version of the world's leading image editing and manipulation tool.

• Introduction
• I
• GETTING STARTED
• Hour
• The Basics
• Finding Your Way Around
• The Toolbox
• Tool Options Bar
• What's on the Menus? Setting Preferences
• Summary
• Workshop
• Hour
• Opening and Saving
• Working with Files
• Saving Your Work
• Undoing and Redoing
• Summary
• Workshop
• Hour
• Making Selections
• The Selection Tools
• The Selection Menu
• Selecting Large Areas
• Cutting and Copying
• Cropping
• Summary
• Workshop
• Hour
• Transformations
• Resizing
• Rotating
• Flipping
• Selection Transformations
• Liquify
• Summary
• Workshop
• Hour
• Color Modes and Color Models
• Color Models
• The Modes and Models of Color
• Color Bit Depth and Why It Matters
• Summary
• Workshop
• Hour
• Adjusting Color
• Adjusting by Eye with Variations
• Making Other Adjustments
• Adjustment Layers
• Understanding Channels
• Summary
• Workshop
• Hour
• Paintbrushes and Art Tools
• The Brushes Menu
• Brushes
• Summary
• Workshop
• Hour
• Digital Painting
• Foreground and Background Colors
• Selecting Colors
• Blending Modes
• Summary
• Workshop
• Hour
• Moving Paint
• Smudges
• Focus Tools
• The Toning Tools
• Summary
• Workshop
• II
• MORE TOOLS AND TRICKS
• Hour
• Advanced Painting Techniques
• Simulating Different Media
• Summary
• Workshop
• Hour
• Layers
• Using the Layers Palette
• Working with Multiple Layers
• Summary
• Workshop
• Hour
• Using Masks
• Applying Masks
• Using Quick Mask
• Layer Masks
• Summary
• Workshop
• Hour
• Paths
• Creating Paths
• Editing Paths
• Using Paths
• Summary
• Workshop
• III
• FUN WITH FILTERS
• Hour
• Filters That Improve Your Picture
• Sharpen Filters
• Blur Filters
• Fading Filters
• Summary
• Workshop
• Hour
• Filters to Make Your Picture Artistic
• Artistic Filters
• Brush Strokes
• Sketch Filters
• Summary
• Workshop
• Hour
• Filters to Distort and Other Funky Effects
• Distort Filters
• Pixelate Filters
• The Stylize Filter
• Combining Filters
• Summary
• Workshop
• IV
• TEXT, EFFECTS AND GETTING PLUGGED IN
• Hour
• Adding Type to Pictures
• The Type Tools
• Setting Type
• Creating Drop Shadows
• Cutting and Filling Type
• Adding Glows
• Creating Bevel and Emboss Effects
• Warping Text
• Setting Type on a Path
• Checking Your Spelling
• Summary
• Workshop
• Hour
• Special Effects and Useful Tricks
• Glows
• Lighting Effects
• Reflections
• Extracting Selections
• Notepad
• Contact Sheets and Picture Packages
• Working Efficiently
• Summary
• Workshop
• Hour
• Photoshop Plug
• Ins and Add
• Ons
• Where to Get Plug
• Ins
• How to Install Plug
• Ins
• Alien Skin's Eye Candy
• Kai's Power Tools
• Auto FX Photo/Graphic Edges
• Flaming Pear
• Genuine Fractals
• Andromeda
• Digimarc
• Summary
• Workshop
• V
• PHOTO REPAIR AND ENHANCEMENT
• Hour
• Compositing
• Image Sources
• Making One Picture from Two