* Polish: correct and enhance color, fix composition problems, and repair damage or flaws* Manipulate: isolate image areas for changes, adjustments and experimental concepts* Understand: use all forms of layer blending, including transparency, clipping masks, opacity/fill, layer masks, layer modes, channel targeting, Blend If, and Effects/StylesThe accompanying DVD comes complete with a generous library of practical actions based on techniques from the book that add functional power to Photoshop, along with practice images for all the exercises in the book. This focused, highly accurate, comprehensive, and practical guide offers invaluable advice for all users of Adobe Photoshop CS4.* Unleash the full power of Layers in Photoshop for limitless non destructive creative image editing* Step by step real life projects take you through every aspect of the layers tool, including masking, blending, and modes, all in the context of a practical photoshop workflow* Ancillary CD contains all the practice images used in the book