Introduction

Why a “Pro” book on Photoshop?

Photoshop has so many features, we couldn’t stuff instructions for all of them into our Visual QuickStart Guide on the subject. Such a rich application deserves a sequel. In this QuickPro, we cover many topics that are too complex for beginning users to tackle, and expand on topics that we touched upon in our QuickStart Guide, such as Camera Raw, selection and retouching techniques, painterly effects, and layer masking, to name but a few. We’ll show you not only how individual features work, such as the mechanics of creating selections or masks, but how they work in the context of completing real world, multistep tasks.

Is there a prerequisite to using this book?

Since you’re reading a QuickPro book, we ...

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