Inside Photoshop® CS

Chapter 14. Retouching a Group Scene by Creating a Composite Image

In this chapter, you'll learn

• How to select components for a composite image

• How to determine which image elements must be replaced

• How to select, add, resize, and retouch image areas

• How to add decorative elements and text to the composite image

If there isn't a Murphy's Corollary for photography, there should be at least a dozen of them, and at the top of the list should be, “The larger the number of people in a scene, the greater the chance that at least one of them will have their eyes closed, their finger in their ear, or adopting some other pose that is an embarrassment.”

And this corollary, taken to the max, applies to a kid's birthday party. Take a dozen kids, all charged ...