Adobe Photoshop CS6 Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks by Lynette Kent

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lynette Kent (Huntington Beach, CA) studied art and French at
Stanford University, where she received a master’s 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.