Mike Wooldridge - Teach Yourself VISUALLY Adobe Photoshop CS6

Photoshop CS6 Mike Wooldridge and Brianna Stuart Teach Yourself VISUALLY Photoshop CS6 Published by
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For technical support please visit www.wiley.com/techsupport. Sales | Contact Wiley at (877) 762-2974 or fax (317) 572-4002. Credits Senior Acquisitions Editor Stephanie McComb Project Editor Terri Edwards Technical Editor Dennis Cohen Copy Editor Scott Tullis Editorial Director Robyn Siesky Business Manager Amy Knies Senior Marketing Manager Sandy Smith Vice President and Executive Group Publisher Richard Swadley Vice President and Executive Publisher Barry Pruett Project Coordinator Sheree Montgomery Graphics and Production Specialists Ronda David-BurroughsJennifer MayberryJill Proll Quality Control Technician John Greenough Proofreading and Indexing Debbye ButlerPotomac Indexing, LLC Vertical Websites Project Manager Rich Graves Vertical Websites Associate Producer Rich Graves About the Authors Mike Wooldridge is a writer and web developer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has authored dozens of books for the Visual series. For more information about him and his books, visit www.wooldridge.net. Brianna Stuart is an author and busy mom based in the Seattle area.

She is also the author of Teach Yourself Visually Photoshop Elements 10 and Creating Web Pages Simplified . Authors Acknowledgments Mike and Brianna thank Terri Edwards, Scott Tullis, Dennis Cohen, and everyone else at Wiley for their help on this book. Mike dedicates this book to his wonderful wife and son, who also love digital photography. Brianna thanks her wonderful extended work family for their support and good humor, even when they are repeatedly subjected to her silly image editing hijinks. She dedicates this book, with lots of love and giggles, to the goofiest twins in the world: Beckett and Owain. How to Use This Book Who This Book Is For This book is for the reader who has never used this particular technology or software application.

It is also for readers who want to expand their knowledge. The Conventions in This Book Steps This book uses a step-by-step format to guide you easily through each task. Numbered steps are actions you must do; bulleted steps clarify a point, step, or optional feature; and indented steps give you the result. Notes Notes give additional information special conditions that may occur during an operation, a situation that you want to avoid, or a cross-reference to a related area of the book. Icons and Buttons Icons and buttons show you exactly what you need to click to perform a step. Bold Bold type shows command names or options that you must click or text or numbers you must type. Italics Italic type introduces and defines a new term.