ABSTRACT
The practical, handy tools go in the belt, and up the pole they go, ready to handle any problem. In talking with people about Photoshop, one tool that they always seem to have thought they read about in a tutorial, or saw at a conference, or read about in a book is the Read the author Mind tool. One of the reasons users find Photoshop daunting is that they try to learn too much—or even all of it—at once. External applications are the additional software items that the people add to their system to enhance processing. There is really very few external software applications that the people need to work with Photoshop. Commands are simple functions—essentially a single step—used to achieve a result. Functions are more complex than simple commands that have a definitive, one-step goal. Adjustment of more than one control is usually necessary, and nothing can be achieved using the defaults.
