Introduction

Overview

Maybe you’ve been asked to take over your company’s website or intranet. Maybe you’re in charge of handling your family’s website, to which you’d like to add some pizzazz. Or maybe you’re already a professional graphic designer and want to update your skills. No matter where you’re coming from, Web Designer’s Guide to Adobe Photoshop is for you.

You couldn’t have picked a better time to familiarize yourself with the Internet — it’s growing exponentially.

Figure 1 illustrates just how dramatic this growth has been over the course of a couple years.

Figure 1: The exponential growth of the internet

No one really knows how big the Internet is, and few analysts are prepared to speculate on a figure these days. Whatever the number, it’s definitely in the billions of pages. Google alone has indexed over 8 billion pages…and that’s only the tip of the iceberg.

Any way you figure it, the Internet is huge and continues to grow. The opportunities for a budding web designer are immense and will only increase with time.