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Introduction
One of the problems with Adobe Photoshop is that the engineers always keep adding stuff to the program and, as Photoshop has got bigger, there has been that much more to write about. This brand new addition to the Photoshop for Photographers series is intended as a companion to the main Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers book. Rather than teach you all the basics of Photoshop, Camera Raw and Bridge, we wanted to concentrate more on what you can actually do with Photoshop. This book is therefore very much tutorial-based and packed with photographic examples shot by Martin Evening and Jeff Schewe. This book is unique in that it doesnt just show you how to use Photoshop, but explains the planning process leading up to the point where Photoshop is used and discusses some of the photographic techniques used, which are also illustrated throughout the book. You could call this edition Photoshop Unleashed, since this book has offered us both a welcome opportunity to talk about the Photoshop techniques that interest us most. Its also rather ironic for this book to be co-authored by Jeff and Martin. Jeff was under contract to write a book tentatively titled Photoshop for Photographers back in the mid 1990s that for many reasons got scrapped. Martin had heard about Jeffs book project and had the good graces to ask permission to use the title which Jeff gladly agreed to. Therein started a friendship between the two authors that now has them collaborating on this new Photoshop for Photographers title.

Acknowledgements This book project began thanks to the support of Ben Denne, Marie Hooper, Hayley Salter and David Albon at Focal Press. Our thanks also go to the other people who helped directly with the production of the book: Rod Wynne-Powell for the tech editing, Soo Hamilton who took care of the proofreading, Chris Murphy who supplied the press proles and Matt Wreford for doing the CMYK conversion work.

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Quite a number of the photographs that appear in this book were shot in our London and Chicago studios. We would like to thank the following people for their assistance: our photographic assistants Harry Dutton and Mel Hill, Camilla Pascucci for makeup and hair, Harriet Cotterill for clothes styling, our models Courtney Hopper at Storm, Natasha DeRuyter at Take 2 and Alex Kordek and Lidia at MOT models, Stuart Weston at LH2 Studios, London, plus Art Director, David Willett and Propabilities, Chicago for supply of the studio props. We thank Kevin Raber of Phase One for the use of the P45+ digital back. We would also like to acknowledge the additional support in the early stages of the book production from Greg Gorman, Peter Krogh, Ian Lyons (the Leprish Iricon) and Marc Pawliger. Thanks also go to all our friends at Adobe: Russell Brown, John Nack, Chris Cox, and co-architects Scott Byer and Russell Williams on Photoshop and Thomas Knoll, Eric Chan, Zalman Stern and Tom Hogarty on Camera Raw. Obviously we owe a great debt of gratitude to Thomas and his brother John Knoll for authoring Photoshop in the rst place and Adobe for having the brilliance to buy it. We also wish to thank Mark Hamburg for the years of useful dialog (and for putting so many of our wishes into Photoshop). Thanks also to the Pixel Genius crew: Mac Holbert, Mike Keppel, Seth Resnick and Andrew Rodney and our gone but not forgotten members Mike Skurski and Bruce Fraser. We miss them and so does the industry. We also give a nod to the Pixel Maa, you know who you are... Lastly, Martin would like to thank Camilla for all her love, support and understanding and Jeff would like to thank his wife Becky and daughter Erica for their support and willingness to accept and love him (it isnt easy). And to Max, the dog who will be remembered. We also wish to thank you, our reader, and hope you get what we are trying to do and enjoy the learning process we do, and it never ends...

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Photograph: Martin Evening. Client: Altered Image | Model: Lydia @ MOT | Fuji GX 68 MkII Camera | 110 mm | 100 ISO Ektachrome Film | Imacon 848 Scanner