"This book is worth its weight in RAM." - Adobe magazine

Real World Photoshop 4 is the only book that explicitly covers the production issues Photoshop users deal with daily. It explains in simple language the essential concepts and techniques for producing great-looking images quickly and efficiently.

This new edition is entirely updated to cover the new features of Photoshop 4, including Actions and Adjustment layers. Chapters include discussions on acquiring images from scanners, video, and Photo CD, correcting the color and enhancing the quality of scans, retouching images, preparing files to be printed, managing color, calibrating a system, reproducing images on press, and outputting images to paper, film, video, and the Web.