Author Description

"Photoshop 6 Cookbook" is an all-inclusive compact reference for serious users of Adobe's latest version of Photoshop. This book is a comprehensive collection of over 500 Photoshop techniques. This exhaustive guide ranges from paint tools to the most complex masking; it lays bare every aspect of advanced web-production. Simply put, this is the most all-encompassing reference-tutorial available on Photoshop 6. Taking O'Reilly's new Cookbook approach, "recipes" walk the reader through complicated methods in a concise way. Within each recipe, there is a section that reviews commonly occurring problems and real examples of how to fix them--a popular Cookbook feature. Other Cookbook ingredients include a second mini-TOC for further assistance in finding a specific technique or problem, and a multitude of images to help illustrate the solution. The Photoshop 6 Cookbook unveils Photoshop 6.0's new features, and takes a close look at such topics as: scanning color profile development file conversion monitor display issues proofing on press reproduction images that require separate programs such as QuarkXPress, PageMaker, K2 (Adobe's new production software, currently in development), Illustrator, FreeHand, and a host of utilities and web development applications. Donnie O'Quinn is the highly reviewed author of "Photoshop in a Nutshell," "Quarkxpress in a Nutshell," and other books on prepress and publishing.