Photoshop 7 Upgrade Essentials

This book focuses on Adobe's version 7 release of Photoshop. It'll tell you what's new, what's changed, why these things are important, and how you can use them effectively. It'll help you get quickly up-to-speed with the new release and maximize your workflow. Photoshop 7 is not quite the huge step forward of some previous releases, but it undoubtedly has many significant improvements that'll improve your output and aid productivity, together with Mac OS X compatibility. There's no need to buy large manuals; this book will teach all you need to know about Photoshop 7.

To start, we'll take you on a tour of all the new tools and features—we assume you're familiar with the basics of Photoshop. Then, we'll have a more detailed look at the new additions, giving you practical examples to work through. We'll explore the implications of these new features: How will they affect the way you work? What new horizons are opened up?

By the end of this book, you will be fully familiar with all the fundamentals of Photoshop 7, and ready to start exploring the new creative avenues it has opened up. It's the fastest way to start getting the most out of Adobe's brilliant image manipulation tool—Photoshop—which still stands head and shoulders above the rest!

And there's more! We've also included information about upgrading from earlier versions.