December 2014
Intermediate to advanced
752 pages
42h 35m
English
Content preview from Adobe Photoshop CC for Photographers, 2014 Release, 2nd Edition
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Layers, Selections and Masking
For a lot of photographers the real fun starts when you can use Photoshop to create composite photographs and combine different image elements into a single photo. This chapter explains the different tools that can be used for creating composite photographs as well as the intricacies of working with layers, channels, mask channels and pen paths. To begin with, let us focus on some of the basic principles such as how to make a selection and the interrelationship between selections, alpha channels, masks and the Quick Mask mode.
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