Preface: Photoshop in the Real World

If you’re reading this book because you want to produce embossed type, fractalized tree branches, or spherized images in Photoshop, you’re in the wrong place. If you’re after tips and tricks on how to get the coolest special effects in your images, look elsewhere. There are (at least) half a dozen good books on those subjects.

But if you’re looking to move images through Photoshop—getting good scans or digital captures in, working your will on them, and putting out world-class final output—this is the book for you. Its raison d’être is to answer the many questions that people in production environments ask every single day (and not without some frustration).

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