Completely updated for Photoshop CS6, this comprehensive book covers:
Photoshop interface tricks & shortcuts
Basic Skills: Transparencies, rounded corners, blending images, matching colors and more
Buttons: Creating buttons and tabs in various shapes and form factors
Backgrounds: Making various gradient and textured backgrounds
Creating text effects, texturing and shadowing text, wrapping text around a curve, and more
Adjusting Images: Removing blue tints, darkening and lightening images, fixing red-eye, removing dark shadows, sharpening images, and more
Manipulating Images: Creating fish-eye effects, removing imperfections, making product shots for ecommerce, and more
Creating Web Interfaces: Best practice & time saving ideas including how-tos on slicing images, creating rollovers, and more
Advanced techniques: Generating thumbnails, animated GIFs, bulk watermarking, sharing Photoshop Actions, and more