User Guide

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Introduction
The Adobe Photoshop Tutorials On the Tour and
Training CD-ROM contain step-by-step tutorials
in PDF format. These are some of the same
tutorials included in
Adobe Photoshop Classroom
in a Book
. For more information, see the
Classroom in a Book section when viewing the
tutorials. For information on how to install and
use Adobe Acrobat

and QuickTime to view these
tutorials, see the Read Me file for these programs
.
The Adobe Photoshop Movies On the Tour and
Training CD-ROM are QuickTime movies that
provide a general tour of Photoshop’s features,
demonstrate new features, and show how to use
layers in Photoshop 5.0.
The Adobe Photoshop Quick Reference Card
Contains basic information about the Adobe
Photoshop tools and palettes, and shortcuts for
using them.
The Electronic Publishing Guide On the Tour and
Training CD-ROM gives an overview of electronic
publishing design issues and publishing with
Adobe Acrobat on the Web and on CD-ROM.
Windows system requirements
To use Adobe Photoshop, you need the following
hardware and software:
•
An Intel

Pentium

-class or faster processor.
•
Windows 95 (or later), or Intel-based
Windows NT
®
version 4.0 or later.
•
At least 32 megabytes (MB) of random-access
memory (RAM).
•
A hard drive with at least 60 MB of free space.
You’ll need additional disk space if you work with
very large image files.
•
An 8-bit (256-color) display adapter card.
•
A CD-ROM drive.
•
A sound card (required to use the Adobe
Photoshop Tour and Training CD-ROM).
For the best performance, Adobe Systems recom-
mends the following hardware and software:
•
64 MB or more of RAM.
•
A 24-bit (millions of colors) video display card.
•
A PostScript
®
printer.
Adobe Photoshop performance improves with
more RAM, faster CPUs, and faster and larger
hard disk drives. Multiprocessor systems and
systems with Intel’s MMX® technology can also
speed performance.
For the latest system requirements, see the
Read Me file.
Mac OS system requirements
To use Adobe Photoshop, you need the following
hardware and software:
•
An Apple

Power Macintosh

computer.
•
At least 32 megabytes (MB) of random-access
memory (RAM).
•
Mac OS version 7.5 or later.
•
A color monitor with an 8-bit (256-color) or
better video display card.