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Chapter 13. Advanced Masking

	Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.
	--Ralph Waldo Emerson

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As I trot around the planet spreading the Photoshop gospel, I am besieged by users who really struggle when they try to isolate a complex object from its background. In almost every case, the problem is caused by using the wrong tool for the ...

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