A guide to Adobe Photoshop offers basic information on resolution, resampling and resizing, color palettes and modes, histograms, arbitrary maps, gamma curves, selection and masking, typography, anit-aliasing, and more. Original.
This book was absolutely amazing in the '90s when it was released. It revealed a dark art of what was really possibly with layers, masks, and effects that ushered in a new era of mostly terrible graphic design, but also rich experimentation. It was pure eye candy, and I loved it.