Foreword Foreword B ack in the early 1990s, people in the former Eastern Bloc countries were just getting used to their new freedoms. I was at university, and one of my lecturers commented that after so many years of state-controlled media, tele- vision was their window on the world. It's something that's stuck with me, and I think that if television can be a window on the world, then perhaps Photoshop is a window on the imagination. Round about the same time, in the early 1990s, the first versions of the program were being developed very much with photo editing in mind. I remember getting my first Macintosh and installing an old version of doubtful legality. (Hey, I was just a student!) Having scan- ned in some photos of a fellow journalism student, and cropping his head into a triangle shape, I began duplicating it across the document and applying different combinations of sharpen, blur, and posterize