The Photoshop CS5 Pocket Guide

1. Meet Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop has long been a treasured tool for professional photographers, but its reputation extends far beyond industry circles. To the lament of Adobe’s legal department (and, most likely, the glee of its marketing folks), the brand name has become a verb in casual conversation. Amazing images often prompt the question, “Did you Photoshop that?”

There’s good reason that Photoshop has become so ubiquitous. Photoshop provides the tools you need to manipulate a photograph in almost any way you can imagine. From simple tasks, such as removing red eye or cropping an image, to more complex procedures, such as making creative distortions or merging parts of images with each other, Photoshop offers a full range of features to ...