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P. WhittPractical Glimpsehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6327-3_7

7. Compositing Images

Phillip Whitt1 
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Columbus, GA, USA
 

Compositing images essentially means borrowing various elements from other images to end up with a composite image. The two lessons that follow are an introduction to basic compositing (inserting the subject of one image into another).

The lessons covered in this chapter are
  • Tutorial 18: Adding a person to an image

  • Tutorial 19: Replacing backgrounds

  • Chapter conclusion

Note

You’ll notice that these two lessons are very similar, but they’re approached differently in each case. Glimpse (in all of its complexity) allows the user different ways to achieve similar results—the more familiar the user becomes with ...

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