3. Working with Photoshop

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Focusing on Restoration

Adobe Photoshop is huge. It’s impressive. It’s like a Swiss Army Knife that’s two inches thick and barely fits in your jeans pocket.

There are 11 main menus in the default menu set in Photoshop CC 2014 (Windows version; 12 on the Mac), 276 menu items accessible beneath those menus, and enough sub-submenus for me to give up counting halfway through. There are 65 tools organized into 20 categories on the Tools panel, and almost 30 other helpful panels that you can show or hide. The manual itself is a 794-page PDF file. Whew!

Photoshop can do many things, and do them well. However, that’s not the ...

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