Photoshop Top 40, Feature #28: Hue/Saturation

Hue/Saturation not only spins colors and intensity values, it lets you modify one color independently of all others. And it does so in such a credible way, you would never know it was there. Perfection.

The Wages of Sin City

Photoshop Top 40, Feature #29: Liquify

The Liquify filter lets you paint in distortions so you can perform digital nips and tucks. You can slim people down, edit their posture, and make them look exactly how they wanted to look in the first place.

Photoshop Top 40, Feature #30: Actions

The Actions palette lets you record your work so you never have to do it again. Plus, you can build up complex visual effects and share them with others, as Deke demonstrates in this jaw-dropping video.

"Photoshop CS4 Smart Objects" Is Complete

Photoshop Top 40, Feature #31: The Brush Tool

The modest brush tool is one of the deepest, most versatile tools in Photoshop. It's not only a terrific painting tool, but it is also invaluable for masking, as this video demonstrates.

Photoshop Top 40, Feature #32: The Pen Tool

Newbies select images with the quick select and magic wand tools. Highly automated, but they rarely work. Experts use the pen tool. It's an art form unto itself, but it always works.

Bert Lets Me Go Nuts

Photoshop Top 40, Feature #33: Calculations

One of the oldest, most abstruse commands in Photoshop, Calculations lets you merge two channels to create a new alpha channel. It's a tough nut to crack, but crack it you must if you want to master masking.

Configurator: CS4 Treasure Trove

Bert Has Me Back on "Pixel Perfect"

Photoshop Top 40, Feature #34: Save for Web (and Devices)

If you're creating Web graphics, there's no substitute for Save for Web. It disposes of non-essential data, reduces file sizes to their absolute minimum, and converts the image to sRGB (the color space of the people).