This is absolutely the ultimate guide to hacking Adobe's wildly popular graphics software, written by an Adobe Certified professional photographer and designer.

    This is serious, down and dirty, tweaking - blowing away the default settings, customizing appearance, optimizing performance, customizing tools and offering readers total control over Photoshop like never before. With these 300+ hacks, readers will find their work with Photoshop faster and easier than ever.

      Roll up your sleeves, and dive into these hacks including:

   - Limiting the File Browser's resources to increase performance
   - Faster Photoshop startup
   - Customizing the Photoshop interface
   - Hacking Photoshop's Tools
   - Access hidden dialog buttons
   - Hacks for Masks, Layers, Paths, Curves and Selections
   - Camera RAW tricks

and so much more.

Chapter 1: Optimizing Performance
Chapter 2: Hacking the Work Area
Chapter 3: The fine Art of Using Palettes
Chapter 4: Browsing with Bridge
Chapter 5: Hacking Preferences and Documents
Chapter 6: Working with Layers
Chapter 7: Creating and Applying Layer Styles
Chapter 8: Hacking Layer Masks
Chapter 9: Hacking Selection Masks
Chapter 10: Drawing and Painting

Etc.