This is a useful guide to creating cool, strange, and pretty type effects in Photoshop 5 for Macintosh and Windows. This updated edition, written for the new version of the image-manipulation package, includes 47 effects, most of them new or refined. The effects, all shown alphabetically, in full color, and with step-by-step instructions, include Cereal, Clay, Flaming, Glass, Halftone, Marble, Painted, Paper Bag, Peel-Away, Plaid, Potato Chips, Reflected, Scales, Shattered, Splattered, Stamped, Stones, Torn, Vibration, Water Droplets, Wax Seal, and Wet Cement. The type effects are easy to reproduce, even for beginners. The book even includes an overview of Photoshop at the beginning of the book in case you"re a novice or just rusty. Appendices provide resources on the third-party vendors who supply material on the included CD-ROM and a quick-reference gallery of all the effects. The CD-ROM has stock photos; filters; fonts; Actions for automatically reproducing some of the techniques in the book; and demo versions of Adobe After Effects, Dimensions, and Streamline--and Macromedia Fontographer, FreeHand, Shockwave, and xRes. --Kathleen Caster