Inside Photoshop® CS

Chapter 1. Producing Awesome Images from the Start

In this chapter, you'll learn

• How to work with Photoshop fonts

• How to add new elements to existing images

• How to edit image contents using paths, masks, and other tools

• How to merge layers

• How to add text to images

• How to save edited text in images

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