Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop CS3 in 24 Hours

Chapter 1. Exploring Photoshop Basics

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• Finding Your Way Around

• The Toolbox

• The Tool Options Bar

• What’s on the Menus?

• Setting Preferences

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Photoshop is still the ultimate graphics program, although it’s quite different from the first version released almost 20 years ago. Even though it’s mainly used for photo retouching and image manipulation, you can also use it to create original art, either from scratch or based on a photograph. You can even use it to set type and make plain lettering look like gleaming metal, three-dimensional puffy satin, or whatever you like. Using Photoshop is much more fun than playing a video game and much less difficult than you might think.

Finding Your Way Around ...