You don't often read a Photoshop book description that brags about what you won't learn. But that's exactly what sets the Photoshop CS4 Crash Course apart from any other Photoshop book out there. Best-selling author, Matt Kloskowski, approached writing this book just like he approaches teaching Photoshop to a close friend:

"I'd never show a friend of mine every tool, adjustment, and palette there is in Photoshop. There's just too many. Instead, I'd show them the top 3 or 4 tools that they need to get up and running." Well that's exactly how this book was written. Matt uses years of Photoshop and teaching experience to cut through all the complexity and cover only the top features you'll need for each major area in Photoshop.

When you're done with this book, you're actually going to feel like you can conquer Photoshop because you know the key stuff. You'll be confident about what the most important features are, when to use them, and how to get the results you want. In fact, when you're done with the Photoshop CS4 Crash Course you'll never be so happy about "what you didn't learn."