So what’s not in this book?

There are some things I intentionally didn’t put in this book. Like punctuation marks (kidding). No, seriously, I tried not to put things in this book that are already in every other Photoshop book out there. For example, I don’t have a chapter on the Layers palette, or a chapter on the painting tools, or a chapter showing how each of Photoshop’s 102 filters looks when it’s applied to the same photograph. I also didn’t include a chapter on printing to your color inkjet because (a) every Photoshop book does that, and (b) every printer uses different printer driver software, and if I showed an Epson color inkjet workflow, you can bet you’d have an HP or a Canon printer (or vice versa) and then you’d just get mad at me. ...

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