Chapter 5. Editing and Compositing

Tone and color corrections are the day-to-day operations that you use for most images, but of course Photoshop also offers incredibly powerful retouching tools that allow you to perform radical alterations to an image. Thanks to its selection and layering tools, Photoshop also provides powerful compositing features that let you do everything from performing simple adjustments and changes to making complex collages. The Photoshop CS3 beta adds a few new tools that will ease your basic retouching operations as well as your compositing chores.

Clone Source

A longtime fixture in Photoshop is the Clone Stamp tool, which lets you interactively brush one part of an image into another. The Clone Stamp is an essential tool ...

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