Travel to a side of Photoshop CS2 you may never have seen before! Here are nearly 50 ways out, advanced effects, colorfully illustrated step by step to show you exactly how to work the magic. Learn to handle some of Photoshop's trickiest commands, including Knockout, Blend If, and Clipping Masks. Create glass text, submerge a city under water, create mythical creatures, cross breed your favorite fruits and that's just for starters. If you have experience using Photoshop, you'll love what you see on this side. Wild! This book helps you to: unlock the mysteries of Photoshop's new Vanishing Point filter and Smart Objects; learn non destructive editing and compositing methods; experiment with aging effects, transform a photo into a woodcut, or multiply an image in different colors; build your dream body without diet or exercise, and turn your friend into a superhero; and create cool reflections and multiple exposures, or recreate a portrait using text patterns.