Dazzling projects and the recipes required to re-create them make this volume the surest, most practical way to learn Photoshop!; Brand-new projects and artwork make opening this book like visiting an art gallery-one that reveals all the secrets behind the masterworks!; Completely updated, the book covers all that's new in Photoshop CS2.; Companion CD comes crammed with project files, inspirational examples, and extra goodies - everything readers need to dive right in and start creating! Using ravishing, full-color photos of professionally designed Photoshop projects (and a CD crammed with project files and examples), the latest edition of this best-selling book carefully lays out the recipes users need to follow to reproduce the works shown in its pages. Seeing is doing as readers follow along with authors Jack Davis, Linnea Dayton, and Cristen Gillespie as they explore all of Photoshop's most important features, including those new to both Photoshop CS and CS2: the integration of Camera Raw, the Lens Correction filter, nonsquare pixel support; Photomerge technology (which allows users to create seamless panoramas from multiple images); the Vanishing Point filter (which allows users to create visual perspective), the ability to place text on paths and in shapes, enhanced file management with the File Browser (CS) and Bridge (CS2); and more. As always with this popular series, the emphasis is on results - how to produce the best work in the least amount of time using the fewest steps possible. To that end, readers may just find some tricks even Adobe doesn't know about! Adobe Photoshop CS2 was announced April 4, 2005 and will ship end of April 2005. Companion CD comes crammed with project files, inspirational examples, and extra goodies-everything readers need to dive right in and start creating!