Inside Photoshop® CS

Introduction: Not New, and Not Wonderful!

How's that for a provocative, controversial lead-in? :) What I mean by this headline is that I've been writing Photoshop books for more than 10 years now, and in the first book I was fairly gushing over what a marvelously new, useful, almost mystical tool Photoshop was. Well, it's still magical, but I now hesitate to call it “new.” My dentist, my astrologer, and the three guys who work on my car will all attest, “Oh, yeah, Photoshop. You retouch pictures with it. My brother-in-law uses it.” So although Photoshop CS introduces new features that we'll thoroughly document in this book, em, calling Photoshop “new” is sort of like calling something a secret that everyone on the earth knows about.

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