Photoshop CS3 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

How this book came about

Sometime in the mid-’80s, a smart guy in Berkeley, California, by the name of Ted Nace got a brainstorm. He decided to start up a computer book publishing company, which he called Peachpit Press (how he came up with the name is another story). The books he published were innovative and user-friendly and offered a fresh approach to learning computer graphics.

I (Elaine) found myself teaching a course in QuarkXPress not long thereafter, and I yearned for a book that would offer steps, like a recipe book, for learning various techniques. If nothing else, I thought, it would make my job easier. Then I got a brainstorm of my own. “What the heck, I have nothing to lose,” I said to Peter, and made a cold call to Ted. I hadn’t ...