A guide to using Adobe Photoshop CS5 covers such topics as working with panels, creating a new document, managing layers, editing images, correcting color and lighting, drawing with vector tools, and using filters.

Includes index.

Photoshop CS5 guided tour --Opening, viewing, and saving files -- Layers: the key to nondestructive editing -- Selections: choosing what to edit -- Controlling color with channels -- Cropping, resizing, and rotating -- Combining images -- Draining, changing, and adding color -- Correcting color and lighting -- The beauty salon: Photoshopping people -- The art of sharpening -- Painting in Photoshop -- Drawing with the vector tools -- Creating artistic text -- The wide world of filters -- Photoshop and print -- Photoshop and the Web -- Working smarter with actions -- Beyond Photoshop: plug-ins.