CHAPTER 3

Targeting Change by Isolation and Masking

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After you have made general corrections in your image, you will want to move to more specific adjustments. These adjustments target change to smaller portions of the image that still need some work after global change. Changes can target color, tone, objects and/or image areas. How you handle the targeting really depends on what you want to accomplish.

Most people will probably look first to selection as a prominent tool for selective change, but with some experience you can improve the adjustments by working with area and object isolation and masking. These techniques and concepts give you an ...

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