Section Two: Frequently Asked Questions

Apparently there are only two categories of questions in Photoshop: quick questions and dumb questions. That has become obvious to me over the years I’ve been teaching—about 98% of the time, people preface their question with either “I just have a quick question” or “this is probably a dumb question.”

Luckily, there are also only two answers to every Photoshop question: “theoretically” and “it depends.”

Here’s the deal about the “quick question” thing: It’s not the length of the question that’s the issue, it’s the length of the answer! The goal in this Q&A section is to be the best of both worlds: quick questions with equally quick answers. I’m not trying to provide deep technical explanations, but enough ...

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