The immense popularity of Adobe Photoshop is in part attributable to the fact that it enables us to alter the reality of images. And who, after all, can resist the temptation to alter pictures? Photoshop 7 Savvy is for anyone who has ever unconsciously scribbled a moustache on a face in a magazine while talking on the telephone. It’s for those of us who take photographs, draw, paint, and cut and paste pictures. It’s for computer artists, graphic designers, web designers and printers. It is intended to help master the software, at whatever level you may be in the learning curve.

The focus of Photoshop 7 Savvy is to present a systematic and comprehensive guide to the tools and operations of Adobe’s amazing image editing software. It is intended to offer descriptions, explanations, and techniques that will make all aspects of the software more accessible and familiar to you without oversimplifying or “dumbizing” the information.

How you work in Photoshop will be defined by your specific output goals. In Photoshop 7 Savvy, you will find everything you need to know to use this powerful program to create and alter images for print, multimedia and the World Wide Web. The book explores the basic concepts that are fundamental to your understanding of the digital image. Each chapter contains information to help you master the Photoshop skills you need. Most chapters contain step-by-step modules, and many conclude with Hands-On projects, which will further enhance your capabilities so that you can ultimately apply the techniques to your own images.