Made by some dude you don't care about doing things you don't want.

I highly recommend that you use tabbed browsing for this tutorial (hopefully the browser you're using has tabs O.o), especially if you're going to view multiple different sections at a time.

Do note that in the middle of making this tutorial, I upgraded to CS5 from CS3, making things a tad outdated.

Also note that this tutorial was made by an editor who does not possess a tablet.

Introduction

A Word About Editing

What's Good Enough?

Cleaning

Straightening

Leveling and Curves

Redrawing

Transformation

Gutter

2-Page Spreads

Color Images

Typesetting

Typesetting Basics

   Non-box Typesetting

   Stroking 

   Manual Stroking

   Masking

   Picking Your Fonts

   Skewing (OLD METHOD FOR PERSPECTIVE SHAPING)

   Distorting for Perspectives (BETTER METHOD FOR PERSPECTIVE SHAPING)

   Warping

   Box Typesetting Flubs

Del-Reying

Custom Pattern-making

Transparency

Finishing Up

Resizing and Exporting

Other Tips and Stuff

History Tool

Actions

View modes

To snap or not to snap

Making a GIF (animated) image

PNG-24 vs. JPG vs. PNG-8

Photoshop Optimizations

Also before you begin, be sure to click the arrow to expand the width of the page you're reading.

Thanks to the staff members of Dynasty for their lazy input, speedscanners for sucking, myself for sucking, and Panda for sucking while I was doing this tutorial. Not that we all still don't suck.

And also Adobe for making crazy expensive products that do the job.

Special mention to NickSawyer and Casusby for providing a few of the images without their willful consent.

Special thanks to TheOnionKnight for creating the auto-align plug-in!