Photoshop 6 Artistry: Mastering the Digital Image

Explains advanced techniques that the Photoshop desktop publishing package provides for color correction, calibration, file compression, duotones, masking, layers, and blending. The author lists step-by-step instructions for restoring old photographs, combining two scans to increase dynamic range, compositing multiple images, applying filters as a special effect, and making a web page with ImageReady 3. The CD-ROM contains example images for each chapter. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)