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TOP 100

Tips & Tricks

Photoshop CS6

by Lynette Kent

Photoshop CS6: Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks

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About the Author

Lynette Kent (Huntington Beach, CA) studied art and French at Stanford University, where she received a masters degree. She taught at the high school and community college level before becoming an unconventional computer guru when she adopted the Mac in 1987. Lynette now writes books for John Wiley & Sons, articles on digital imaging and photography for ShootSmarter.com, and reviews for Design Tools Monthly . She also teaches and presents graphics-related hardware and software for technology companies, including Wacom, Adobe, G-Technology, and Digital Foci. Both a photographer and artist, Lynette enjoys traditional and digital painting and often blends these techniques with her photographs to create images. Lynette has written the Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks titles for Photoshop CS2, CS3, CS4, and CS5; Teach Yourself VISUALLY Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2; Teach Yourself VISUALLY Mac OS X Leopard; and Teach Yourself VISUALLY Digital Photography, 3rd Edition. In her nonexistent spare time, Lynette helps run the Adobe Technology Exchange of Southern California, a professional organization for photographers, graphic designers, and fine artists.

Acknowledgements

Special thanks go out to project editor Sarah Hellert for her literal and meticulous unscrambling of chapters and tireless attention to detail; to copy editor Scott Tullis for making sure the text was understandable and legible; to tech editor Dennis Cohen for overseeing the accuracy of the steps and technical terminology. Thank you to graphics technicians Ronda David-Burroughs, Sennett Vaughan Johnson, Jill Proll, and Sarah Wright, and to the project coordinator, Sheree Montgomery. And thank you, Stephanie McComb, acquisitions editor at John Wiley & Sons, for asking me to write this book.

I also want to thank John Derry for his time-consuming and thoughtful answers to all my questions on mixer brushes. Many thanks also go to Val Gelineau of Photospin.com for allowing me to use some great Photospin images to illustrate several tasks. And of course thanks go to the Adobe team for always being so responsive to all the questions from the beta testers.

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