Chapter 1. Building a Photoshop System: Putting It All Together

Photoshop is about as rich a program as you'll ever encounter, and much of this book focuses on ways to make you more efficient in your use of it. But no quantity of tips, tricks, and workarounds can compensate for hardware that's inadequate to the task, or a poorly configured system. So in this chapter we look at building an environment for Photoshop.

We first look at the hardware resources Photoshop needs, and then at some software add-ons that we find really useful.