I really don't have objections to people having a singularly narrow view, but let's back this up with some substance.

From the photoshop help menu:
Masks let you isolate and protect areas of an image as you apply color changes, filters, or other effects to the rest of the image.

Maybe this explination is not clear enough for you. I'm guessing it's good enough for 90% of the users of Photoshop.
I believe there is a similar and releven explination for the history brush. There is in the copy of photshop I have.
Do you have any relevent examples from professional software, I'd like to hear them. (Non professional software is for sucks so don't waste my time.)
I'll certainly pass this on to our marketing dept that there is a select group of usere who feel that a "Dummy's" manual would be a useful addition to our product line. Natually we are going to charge you some additional cash for including it in the box.
Strange, tho. I think the majority of our customers would be a little ticked off if we charged them 35$-50$ more for a copy of our software just so we can include another manual.
Tell me more about this idiot you keep talking about. Is it likley he will buy our product? I find this disturbing, since while our tools are aforable, they should only be used by people who need them.

Reviewing your posts it seems like there might be a bug in your operating system that doesn't show you my entire post. Are you sure you are getting eveything I'm writing? It seems that you might have missed the part where I mentions that a software company should provide basic instruction on how to use the product. If this was missing from what you read, I apologize for seeming like a jerk.

I am certainly interested in discussing specific failures of professional software with you. I would like my company to provide exemplary documentation for our products. We can only benifit from the failings of others.

Look at you with your own opinion and everythanG!

I believe the previous post said this:
I don't feel it's the responsibility for ANY software company to provide more information than what the menu items do, what the tools do...

So why do you say this:
If, however, you usurp definitions of common words in your software and then don't tell people what YOU mean when you use that word then you are not giving a complete explanation.

Do you just have a problem with reading an entire post? What is it selective vision? All I need is the menu items explained, I'll get the rest thanks, I have a brain and don't want the added cost to a product I'm buying. If I feel it necessary then I'll go buy the manual that I want, otherwise, I've saved. There are enough books written about any worthwhile program on the market.