Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 in 24 Hours

Chapter 22. Making Composite Images

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What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

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Adjusting scale and lighting in a composite

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Applying layer styles to image elements

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Using adjustment layers to fix flaws

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Working with tool and layer blending modes

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Applying special effects to image elements

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Incorporating prebuilt objects from the Content palette

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Any time you combine two or more images into a single picture, you’re creating a composite image. Composites can be as simple as a corporate logo superimposed over an advertising photo, or as complex as a full-scale photomontage by an artist such as ...