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Introduction
elcome to the Adobe
®
Photoshop
®
program—extraordinary photo
retouching, image editing, and color
painting software. Whether you are a novice or
an expert in image editing, the Adobe Photoshop
program offers you the tools you need to get
professional-quality results.
You’ll find that Photoshop excels as an art
production tool, whether you are a graphics
producer who needs to merge and edit color
images, a photographer who wants to retouch
proofs, or a graphic designer who is creating
original or composite artwork, collages, or photo
montages for print or on the Web. Photoshop is
equally useful to printers and service bureaus that
want to generate color separations, to animators
who want to colorize images and produce audio-
visual materials quickly, and to artists who want
to create new artwork using the latest media
and tools.
About this manual
The Adobe Photoshop User Guide provides detailed
information about the Adobe Photoshop tools and
commands. It is designed to be used as a reference
tool in your everyday work with Adobe
Photoshop. This cross-platform manual provides
instructions for using Adobe Photoshop on both
the Microsoft
®
Windows
®
and Mac OS platforms.
Any differences in procedures and commands
between platforms are noted in the text.
Before using this manual, you need to install the
program by following the instructions given in this
chapter. This chapter also describes system
requirements, and provides information on new
features in Adobe Photoshop 5.0.
This manual assumes you have a working
knowledge of your operating system and its
conventions, including how to use a mouse and
standard menus and commands and how to open,
save, and close files. For help with any of these
techniques, please see your Windows or Mac OS
documentation.
Learning Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop 5.0 includes the following
printed and online documentation. For infor-
mation on troubleshooting and technical support,
see Appendix, “Troubleshooting.”
The Adobe Photoshop User Guide Contains infor-
mation on using all Adobe Photoshop commands
and features. The user guide also indicates when
further information on a topic is available in the
Help system.
The Adobe Photoshop Help system Contains all
of the information in the Adobe Photoshop user
guide, optimized for use online. In addition, the
Help system includes a description of the Adobe
Photoshop shortcuts, and more detailed infor-
mation on some commands and filters.
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