Introduction
PART I- GETTING YOUR FEET WET
1. Getting creative when you have no idea what you're doing
PART II- PHOTOSHOP CORE CONCEPTS
2. Optimizing and customizing Photoshop preferences
3. Harnessing the power of selections
4. Enough selections! The layers and shapes chapter
5. Working with channels and paths
6. Using the clone stamp, healing brush tool, and patch tool
PART III- THE IMPORTANT AND HEADACHE-CAUSING STUFF- CALIBRATION, INPUT AND OUTPUT
7. Understanding Photoshop's color management system
8. Input, Output, and Resolution
PART IV- PHOTOSHOP FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS
9. Basic picture editing
10. Color and tone correction
11. Restoring an heirloom photograph
12. Retouching an heirloom photograph
PART V- PHOTOSHOP FOR ARTISTS
13. Using paths
14. Bringing out the artist in you
15. Out of this world A.R.T. (Advanced Rendering Techniques)
PART VI- PAGE LAYOUT AND TYPOGRAPHY
16. Typography
17. Special effects with type
PART VII- PHOTOSHOP FOR THE WEB
18. Creating interface elements
19. Optimizing, rollovers, and slicing
20. Animation
21. Scripting and actions
PART VIII- PHOTOSHOP TRICKS AND CLOSING THOUGHTS
22. Gary Cauldron and photoshop tricks
23. Where do we go from here?
Appendices