Section IV, "Preparing For Print," is the purpose of why we take photos; to show them in some form or manner. Sometimes it is on the web, others, it is the more traditional route; the printer. The devil is in the details and with regard to printing it is in the sharpening, noise reduction, and finally the proofing and printing. Here you will examine how best to sharpen both globally and targeted areas of your image. You will see how to cleanup artifacts, how to soft-proof and print preview your image, and get your image ready to output.

How To Wow is printed in full color and is very nicely laid out. It is fully indexed and contains a good sampling of the author's work throughout and at the end of the book. There is also a CD ROM that contains a majority of the images (some are not available because of copyright restrictions) used in the step-by-step instructions so that you can follow along.

What I like about How To Wow: Photoshop CS3 For Photographers is the way it flows. Within each section is a logical progression such that if you need to locate or learn a skill, you don't have to trudge through a lot of dialog or learn much in the way of prior steps. You can digest that single skill. Keep in mind that it is geared toward the intermediate and above level user and so expects that you are familiar with Photoshop to a certain degree. With that in mind, I can highly recommend this book.