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Real World Adobe Photoshop CS3: Industrial-Strength Production Techniques
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Real World Adobe Photoshop CS3: Industrial-Strength Production Techniques

by David Blatner, Conrad Chavez, Bruce Fraser
December 2007
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
768 pages
20h 50m
English
Peachpit Press
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Chapter 9. Making Selections: Getting Just What You Need

You love the painting and retouching tools that Photoshop offers; you love layers; you even love all the options it gives you for saving files. But as soon as someone says “alpha channel” or “mask,” your eyes glaze over.

It doesn’t have to be this way. Masks, channels, and selections are actually really easy once you get past their bad reputation. Making a good selection is obviously important when silhouetting and compositing images—two of the most common production tasks. But perhaps even more important, selections are also a key ingredient for nondestructive tonal corrections, color corrections, sharpening, and even retouching. We discussed some of these in the previous chapter, and we’ll ...

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