Adobe® Creative Suite® 5 Design Premium How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

Chapter Three. Working with Photoshop

Credit the folks at Adobe Systems for not sitting on their laurels with the release of Photoshop CS5, which marks version 12 of this venerable giant. With more than 20 years as the de facto image-editing program, Adobe has continued pushing the world’s reigning heavyweight leader. Timeless features like unsharp masking, the Clone Stamp tool, layers, and layer effects that might have become flabby and worn from lack of serious competition have improved steadily. Today, barely an image that appears in print or on screen can be found that hasn’t been touched at some point in its life by Photoshop. Whether it’s removing an unsavory color cast, restoring damaged photos, correcting perspective, or giving a model ...