This guide to visual media processing using MATLAB will be very useful to a beginner programmer who has little or no knowledge of the environment, but would like to use it as an alternative, or possibly, substitute solution to common image and video editors. The only thing that you will need to have before starting this book is a basic prior knowledge of image and video processing to grasp the material covered more easily. Also, some basic programming experience could come in handy, but is not necessary, since most parts of the book start from scratch.