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Essential shortcuts, expert tricks and clever techniques to help you get more from Photoshop and create even better photos.

In this Focus Guide you’ll find the most useful shortcuts, expert tricks and practical techniques to help you get more from Photoshop or Elements and make your photos even better. It shows you how to apply adjustments more quickly and set up your program to suit the way you want to work.

RETOUCHING SECRETS - Top professional techniques for removing blemishes and restoring obscured details.

EXPERT ENHANCEMENTS - Add punch and vibrancy, fix your problem pics and bring out the best in every shot.

SELECTIONS AND MASKING - Unlock the hidden power of layers and masks to create stunning ‘HDR’ and more. 

TRICKS AND SHORTCUTS Get more from the tools you use every day and master advanced or hidden options.

More tutorials • More depth • 132 pages of triedand- tested techniques and easy-to-follow advice.

Get more from Photoshop/Elements, create great results more quickly and improve any photo with our 100 top tips, tricks and shortcuts.

ON THE EXCLUSIVE CD ROM

■ 150 Actions for Photoshop & Elements

■ Topaz Detail 2 Sharpen without haloes

■ Image Doctor 2.1.1 Fast photo repair

■ Viveza 2 Enhance colour & light + more

Are you new to Photoshop/Elements, or a photo-editing veteran? Either way, can you remember what it felt like when you first started using the program? There’s an awful lot to take in, and it can be daunting to get going with. After a little while, though, you puzzled out what does what, and pretty soon you knew your way around quite well.

But do you ever re-experience that initial feeling of uncertainty? Do you ever find yourself struggling with some task and wonder whether there’s a better way to tackle it – some shortcut or trick that would get the job done more quickly or produce a better result? That’s where this guide can help.

You’ll learn how to get the very best from the tools you use every day and discover handy ‘hidden’ options that will enable you to work more quickly with layers, create more precise selections and more subtle masks, and eliminate blemishes and flaws more seamlessly.  

You’ll find tricks and workarounds for making your photos sharper, brighter and punchier in no time (and for avoiding disasters... or making it easier to undo them!).

You’ll find out how to level an offkilter shot more precisely, correct asymmetrical distortions by hand, target sharpening where it’s needed and avoid exacerbating noise, and much, much more.

 

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