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Inside Photoshop® CS
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Inside Photoshop® CS

by Gary David Bouton, Mara Zebest, Gary Kubicek, Dave Huss, Christian Verhoeven
May 2004
Beginner
1128 pages
27h 27m
English
Sams
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Chapter 17. Surrealistic Photoshop

In this chapter, you'll learn

  • How to composite photographs to create surrealistic images in Photoshop

  • How to remove image areas with a layer mask

  • How to refine layer masks

  • How to insert a layer into a Layer Set

  • How to use Adjustment Layers

  • How to flip and transform a layer

  • How to employ quick methods to create layer masks

  • How to replace masked-out image areas

  • How to touch up the final image

  • How to create and use Layer comps

The word surreal is used to describe something as having a dream-like quality. Since we all dream, we all have a personal connection to those illogical and strange images that are surrealistic. There is something eye-catching and intriguing about a surrealistic image. Hang an image of a train charging ...

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