The Next Step

If you’ve made it through this entire chapter, you’ve officially passed through Photoshop’s welcoming committee of tools and panels. By now your screen should look neat and tidy, and you should be able to zoom in and out and scroll around an image with ease. You should also have a nodding acquaintance with a good number of the tools and panels—at least you should be familiar enough with them to know which ones you want to get more friendly with later.

Don’t panic if some of this information seems like a blur. It will all begin to take shape once you spend more time with the program. After a few intense Photoshop sessions, the details you learned in this chapter will become second nature. Take some time and click around the tools, ...

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