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Two views over this lawyer’s shoulder. The top image shows him holding a realistic sheet of paper; in the bottom picture, he’s holding a letter that appears unnaturally stiff, as if it has been pasted onto a sheet of card. Transforming the sheet was the work of just a few seconds, yet can make all the difference when creating a realistic montage.

2Transformation and distortion

PHOTOMONTAGE IS ABOUT COMBINING images from a variety of sources. And unless you’re very, very lucky, you’ll need to at least change the scale of some of these images ...

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