The Basics of How Compositing Works
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This chapter and the next one are the chapters lots of folks will be tempted to skip:“Hey, let’s jump to the tutorials and the eye candy!” But I hope you won’t skip them—or if you do at first, you’ll come back to them later. If you don’t understand how the process of compositing works, you won’t be able to do much more than push buttons, and you’ll be stuck with the most basic of effects. Understanding how various techniques work and which techniques work best for a particular situation will allow you to do better, more creative work.
Compositing is a sort of umbrella term we use to cover a number of different technologies that allow the creation of a new image (or composite) from multiple unrelated elements. ...
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