Quick Photoshop for Research: A Guide to Digital Imaging contains essential information on the use of Photoshop specific to researchers. This step-by-step guide is the only book published for users whose needs are not for the purpose of graphic or web design: instead, this book only addresses the tools and functions necessary for the ethical enhancement of scientific images, and subsequent layout of these images into figures or plates.

The aim is to provide information about digital imaging in an easy-to-follow guide from the beginning of the imaging process to its end. Additional information about scanning and acquiring images via a digital camera or laser/PMT system is also covered, as well as information about printers and PowerPoint. This book is intended for occasional users, as well as beginning and intermediate users, primarily in the life sciences, though it can be applied to forensics, astronomy, and engineering. It can also be distributed from core imaging facilities from within universities and corporations for those who use microscopes, scanners, confocal systems, and other imaging devices. Actions can be downloaded from quickphotoshop.com to automate functions covered in this book.