“Photoshop CS4: The Missing Manual”  
By Lesa Snider
Publisher: O'Reilly Media / Pogue Press
Released: December 2008 
Pages: 800

“Photoshop CS4: The Missing Manual” By Lesa Snider, an excellent author create  her new book. Her informative and soothing conversational tone perfectly complements his intimate knowledge of Photoshop as a tool for designers and photographers. If you want a book filled with techniques geared specifically to designers and photographers interspersed with beautiful images and a great deal of inspiration, checking out this book! 

The “Photoshop CS4: The Missing Manual” is a guide to the less-subtle things you can do with this powerful image editor. The series of “Missing Manual” books is known for it’s colorful visuals and detailed instructions, and this version is no exception.

The new CS4 version of Photoshop with all its fantastic new features and options can bewilder even the most seasoned professional. Photoshop is an application that when used proficiently, can leave little evidence of having touched an image. It also has a thousand amount of tools and potential. 

Packed with tips, tricks, and lots of practical advice, Photoshop CS4: The Missing Manual teaches you everything you need to know to edit photos and create beautiful documents in Photoshop -- whether you're a beginner or a power user ready to try some advanced techniques. The book is printed in color throughout, a must for any image-editing manual. Among the most helpful images in the book are examples of the effects and filters as applied to images. This gallery of effects, before and after, is an excellent at-a-glance look when one is stymied by the endless possibilities of styles and filter effects. This book is useful than even for Photoshop’s user as all the sample files used in the book as well as hundreds of actions effects and filters.  

The many new effects that has been introduced in this book and can found in the latest version of Photoshop CS4 is completely shows the advantages of the time-saving techniques and advanced way of working in Adobe Photoshop CS4. 

This book is great for all Photoshop users from beginners to advance and gurus. 

In “Photoshop CS4: The Missing Manual” By Lesa Snider there are plenty of easy-to follow examples which help anyone to create amazing filter and mask effects the “wow” effects through the book.