Conventions Used in This Book

If I’m showing you how to access a menu, you see a command arrow like this: →For example, if I say choose Select→Feather, click the Select menu and choose the Feather option. (Incidentally, this menu option enables you to blur a selection outline as I explain in Chapter 7.)

This is a cross-platform book, and in the Mac OS things are called by different names than they are in the Windows OS. For example, on the Mac, a traditional Windows drop-down list box is called a pop-up menu. For the sake of simplicity in this book, I consistently go with the Windows vernacular and call Mac pop-up menus drop-down lists. In all other cases, the Mac equivalent of a Windows operation appears in parentheses, like this:

Press Enter (Return on a Mac).

Press Ctrl+Z (z+Z on a Mac).

Press Alt+Shift (Option+Shift on a Mac).