Does this make the book too advanced?

Absolutely not. That’s because my goal is to present all these techniques in such a simple, easy-to-understand format that no matter where you are in your Photoshop skills, you’ll read the technique and rather than thinking, “Oh, I could never pull that off,” you’ll think, “Hey, I can do that.”

While it’s true that this book includes many advanced techniques, just because a technique is advanced, doesn’t mean it has to be complicated or “hard to pull off.” It just means that you’ll be further along in the learning process before you’d even know you need that technique.

For example, in the retouching chapter, I show how to use the Healing Brush to completely remove wrinkles, and that’s what many photographers ...

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