When it comes to designing in Photoshop, there is a myriad of ways one could use to achieve a certain result. Designers use techniques they are most confident as well as comfortable with, which is great because it’s always useful to peek into the workflow of our colleagues and learn new design approaches. Creating great artwork without intimately knowing your tools is certainly possible, but the more you know, the more likely you are to work faster and with greater confidence.

This eBook contains 11 articles that cover useful techniques and tricks from experts such as retouching, cloning, compositing, obscure Photoshop time savers and designing for iPhone. You may know some of them, but hopefully not all of them.

The articles have been published on Smashing Magazine in 2010 and 2011 and they have been carefully edited and prepared for this eBook. We hope that you will find this eBook useful and valuable. We are looking forward to your feedback on Twitter and via email.

— Thomas Burkert, Smashing eBook Editor