Photoshop is a great program that has thousands of gurus the world over. Everyone has their special trick and tips for doing certain things and Photoshop often allows you to end up with the same result by going about it 3-4 different ways. This page is not about teaching you everything you need to know about Photoshop, it's about giving you a few simple techniques that might help you in preparing files for printing.

Youtube is a great place to find out something about most things these days so if you really need to know something try Googling it first and you usually see a youtube link right up there at the top.

Here's a few interesting ones to kick you off...

• Photoshop TV - The BEST place to learn anything about Photoshop.
• The Basics of Using Curves - learn all about the Curves menu and how it affects your image.
• Brightness and Contrast Tool - A potentially image-damaging tool, improved on CS3.
• Using the Extract Tool - this is one way to remove the background from an image.
• Facial Scrub for Even Glowing Skin - a great one to fix all those blotchy skin areas.
• Sharpening images in LAB mode - a very useful technique.
• Camera RAW 101 - the basics of dealing with camera RAW files.