If you're using Photoshop without working with channels and masks, you're missing out on some of the most powerful and creative features Photoshop CS3 has to offer. Let this comprehensive reference teach you to use these valuable tools the way professionals do. Create dazzling composites, speed your workflow, get awesome color—it's all here and more with step-by-step instructions, techniques, and examples. If you want to tap the full potential of Photoshop channels and masks, this striking full-color Bible is the book you need to succeed.

• Harness channels and masks for faster workflow

• Unravel the secrets of creating, mixing, and converting digital color

• Add lighting effects, 3D, and other channel pyrotechnics

• Composite layer content with advanced blending

• Reveal, conceal, and refine your images with layer masks

• Combine selections from single and multiple documents

• Learn to posterize, create textures, correct faded images, and more

• Use type masks to add an artist's sparkle to the text

Inside, find brilliant full color throughout, including hundreds of color screen shots and examples.

Learn how to work with soft-edged selections

Learn how to select and composite transparent shadows

Learn how to blend layers