Photoshop CS Timesaving Techniques for Dummies

by Phyllis Davis

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About the Author

Phyllis Davis is a writer, graphics and Web designer, teacher, and graphics software expert. Her professional design credits include many books, fine art posters, and advertisements.

In addition to Photoshop

cs Timesaving Techniques For Dummies, Phyllis is also the co-author of Photoshop

cs For Dummies, and the author of The GIMP: Visual QuickStart Guide (Peachpit Press), CorelDraw: Visual QuickStart Guide (Peachpit Press), and many other highly regarded books about graphic design and photo-manipulation software.

When she isn’t writing and designing books and creating Web sites, Phyllis can be found developing and teaching computer courses, digging in her garden with her husband, Harold, and playing with her wonderful boys, Julian and Nicholas.

Dedication

For Harold, the love of my life.

Author’s Acknowledgments

Many thanks go out to Bob Woerner and Matt Wagner for entrusting me with this great project. I also owe a huge debt of gratitude to Nicole Sholly, Rebecca Senninger, and Virginia Sanders, who untwisted my gnarled sentences and made sense of the nonsensical. Dennis Cohen caught my technical blunders and gently nudged me in the right direction. Thanks, Dennis!

Many of the beautiful photographs in this book were created by my husband, Harold Davis. These photographs are copyright Harold Davis and are used with his permission.

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