Photoshop

Adapted from Photoshop CS5 Essentials (Peachpit Press)

By Mark Galer and Philip Andrews

Adapted from Layers: The Complete Guide to Photoshop's Most Powerful Feature, 2nd Edition (Peachpit Press)

By Matt Kloskowski

Excerpted from Adobe Creative Suite 5 Web Premium How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques (Adobe Press)

By David Karlins

Most graphic designers are most comfortable designing in Photoshop. And Photoshop provides a convenient environment to sketch and prototype Web pages.

Excerpted from Real World Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Photographers (Peachpit Press)

By Conrad Chavez

Excerpted from Creative Black and White:
Digital Photography Tips and Techniques (Wiley Publishing)

By Harold Davis

Yesterday, Getty Images announced the launch of Archive Photos from their Hulton Archive. I thought it would be interesting to see how difficult it is to restore these old images.

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After. Marilyn Monroe: Photo by Baron/Getty Images

Photoshop Principal Product Manager John Nack on his blog writes Adobe added an option to the Layers panel flyout menu, making it possible to have Photoshop stop adding the word "copy" to layer names when duplicating layers. The preference is off by default to avoid breaking actions that rely on "copy."

Adapted from Real World Image Sharpening with Adobe Photoshop, Camera Raw, and Lightroom, 2nd Edition (Peachpit Press)
By Bruce Fraser and Jeff Schewe