Professional Photoshop 5

Photoshop is an industry standard software for image creation and manipulation. Photoshop 5.0 is a significant upgrade, particularly for colour, graphic design, photography, and prepress professionals. Some of the new features important to this audience include: improved colour management capabilities; Dot Gain curves can now be defined in CMYK; Gamma Control Panel for calibrating monitors; Custom Inks; History Palette for multiple "undo's"; Colour Sampler tool for consistent color readouts across files; and gradient tool with less banding and the option to reverse direction of gradient. This revised edition provides readers with the techniques, skills, and concepts for using Photoshop 5.0 to achieve professional quality in the colour reproduction of images. Readers are able to build their Photoshop skills on a foundation of classic, solid knowledge and concepts, such as the ability to analyse an image and understand colorspace theories, so they can take full advantage of the program's latest tools and features.
This edition offers coverage of: image manipulation for the Web and desktop colour printers, as well as offset printing; how to work with colourspaces other than CMYK; how to restore old images; how to print with more than four colours; and the proper method for separating files for colour printing.