User Guide

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ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 5.0
User Guide
• 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.
•
A CD-ROM drive.
For the best performance, Adobe Systems recom-
mends the following hardware and software:
•
Mac OS version 8.1 or later.
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At least 64 MB of RAM.
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A 24-bit (millions of colors) video display card.
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A PostScript

printer.
Adobe Photoshop performance improves with
more RAM, faster CPUs, and faster and larger
hard disk drives. Multiprocessor systems can also
speed performance.
For the latest system requirements, see the
Read Me file.
The Adobe Photoshop package
contents
The Adobe Photoshop software package includes
the following software and documentation:
•
The Adobe Photoshop CD-ROM Set consisting
of the Application and Tutorial CD-ROM discs.
(For a description of their contents, see the
following sections.)
•
Adobe Photoshop User Guide.
•
Adobe Photoshop Quick Reference Card.
•
Registration card. (The card is not included
in upgrades from previous versions.)
Contents of the Adobe Photoshop
Application CD-ROM
The Application CD-ROM contains the following
software:
The Adobe Photoshop installer Includes every-
thing needed to install Adobe Photoshop 5.0 on
your hard drive—the installer, the Adobe
Photoshop program, Adobe Gamma control
utility, plug-in modules, the Adobe Photoshop
tutorial files, and numerous sample files.
Goodies (Windows)\Other Goodies (Mac OS) folder
Includes textures for use with the Lighting Effects
plug-in filter, third-party plug-in modules, the
HSL and HSB filter for converting Adobe
Photoshop RGB images to HSL or HSB mode
(Mac OS only), the Filter Factory plug-in which
lets you create your own plug-in filters, and
the Adobe PSPrinter
™
driver. Documentation
is included in Adobe Acrobat electronic format
(PDF).
QuickTime
®
software (QuickTime for Windows, Apple
QuickTime for Mac OS)
Enables you to view
the movies included in the Adobe Photoshop
CD-ROM Set.
Adobe technical notes Written by the Adobe
technical staff, this information appears on-screen
as Acrobat PDF files. You can print the sections
you refer to regularly.
Stock art Includes many high-resolution digitized
images, backgrounds, and textures for your
personal, non-commercial use.
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