Chapter 1. Producing Awesome Images from the Start

In this chapter, you'll learn

  • How to work with Photoshop fonts

  • How to add new elements to existing images

  • How to edit image contents using paths, masks, and other tools

  • How to merge layers

  • How to add text to images

  • How to save edited text in images

Personal experience has reaffirmed the belief that there are two types of people:

  • People who are fastidious to a fault. They open the same end of a roll of Life Savers time after time, they eat their vegetables before eating dessert, they never sneak ahead and read the last page of a mystery novel, and they irk me.

And then there's…

  • The enlightened ones who don't mind asking directions at a gas station, believe that the shortest path is a straight line, ...

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