Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop CS4 in 24 Hours

Chapter 20. Creating Composite Images

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Making One Picture from Two (or More)

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Tricks to Make Composition Easier

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Putting the Pieces Together with Photomerge

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Compositing is often known by other names. You can call it combining pictures, or making a collage, or the art of photomontage. Whatever you call it, however, the goal is the same—to create one image from pieces of other ones—and for several reasons, Photoshop is the ideal program for this kind of work. First, Photoshop offers you all the tools you need to assemble pieces of different pictures. Second, it gives you the capability to place your image components ...