Apple Macintosh PhotoFlash - Manual (Page 10)

How to use this book
This guide is organized according to tasks. Use the Contents or the Index to
locate instructions for specific tasks.
Descriptions of tasks in this guide often include numbered steps. Each step
consists of a short instruction in boldface type followed (usually) by further
explanation in plain type. Depending on your level of expertise with
PhotoFlash and other Macintosh programs, you may find that you can speed
through some or all of the instructions by reading just the boldface steps and
looking at the pictures:
1 The boldface steps like this tell you what to do.
The text like this gives you extra help.
2 Pictures like this show you what to look for on your computer screen:
This guide contains the following chapters and appendixes:
m Chapter 1, “Using Catalogs,” describes how to create and use PhotoFlash
catalogs—collections of thumbnails that represent image files stored
anywhere on your hard disk or on other volumes, including other volumes
on a network.
m Chapter 2, “Working With Image Files,” describes how to open, view, and
save image files with PhotoFlash. This chapter also describes the standard
image file formats that PhotoFlash supports.
m Chapter 3, “Working With Selections,” describes how to use the Selection
tools in the PhotoFlash Tool palette to select part of an image. After you’ve
selected an area, you can use the Action tools to manipulate or enhance it
as described in Chapters 4 and 5.
m Chapter 4, “Manipulating Images,” describes how to use commands in the
Image menu to crop, resize, straighten, rotate, flip, and change the number
of colors used by an image. It also describes how to manipulate selections
by using the Crop, Resize, and Rotate tools in the PhotoFlash Tool palette.
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