So what's the bad news?

Well, since I wrote Photoshop 7 Down & Dirty Tricks, I've received literally thousands of gracious letters from people all around the world who had bought the book, telling me how much they learned from it (it was translated into ten languages, including Chinese, Russian, Japanese, and of course, the languages of love). As an author, I can't tell you how fulfilling it is to get that kind of feedback. But the bad news is, after they have this new book and try all these all-new, much cooler, never-shown-before techniques, they'll look back at that (once beloved) book and think, “What a piece of crap!” (They'll actually think of a different word. Stronger, but with the same number of letters.)

…I had to trash every technique ...

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