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Product Description Photoshop CC is an outstanding image editor, but it can be pretty overwhelming. This book makes learning Photoshop as easy as possible by explaining the hows and whys in a friendly, conversational style. You’ll unlock Photoshop’s secrets, new goodies, and time-saving features, with expert tips and practical editing advice you can use every day. The important stuff you need to know: Learn your way around. Tour Photoshop’s workspace and learn how to customize it. Unleash the magic. Use selections, layers, masks, and smart objects to safely edit images; automate common chores with actions. Perfect your photos. Learn to crop, resize, color-correct, retouch, combine, and prepare photos for print or online use. Master color. Drain, change, and add color, and even create digital makeup, partial-color effects, and duotones. Be artistic. Use filters effectively, create illustrations, paintings, artistic typography, animations, and videos. Go 3D. Create and edit 3D objects and send them off to a 3D-printing service from inside Photoshop. Export web graphics. Use Generator to instantly export and resize images—just by using layer names. About the Author Lesa Snider is on a mission to teach the world to create—and use!—better graphics. She’s an internationally acclaimed speaker, a stock photographer, and the founder of the creative tutorial site PhotoLesa.com. Lesa is the author of many video-training workshops (www.lesa.in/clvideos) and the coauthor of iPhoto ’11: The Missing Manual. She writes a regular column for Photoshop User, Elements Techniques, and Macworld magazines, and contributes frequently to Design-Tools.com and PlanetPhotoshop.com. Lesa is also a long-time member of the Photoshop World Dream Team of instructors and can be spotted teaching at many other conferences around the globe. You can connect with her online on Facebook (www.facebook.com/PhotoLesa), YouTube (www.lesa.in/ytvideochannel), Twitter (@PhotoLesa), and www.PhotoLesa.com.During her free time, you’ll find Lesa carving the twisties on her sportbike, dressed up in her Star Trek best at a sci-fi convention with her husband, or hanging with fellow Apple Mac enthusiasts. Lesa is a proud member of the BMWMOA and the First Lady of the Colorado Mac User Group (www.CoMUG.com) a.k.a. the Boulder Mac Maniacs. Email: [email protected].