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Visual Alchemy: The Fine Art of Digital Montage by Catherine McIntyre

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Preface

Image

INTRODUCTION

Digital manipulation as a medium of expression

THEMES

Finding your subject

Themes

BEAUTY AND IDEA

INFLUENCES

INSPIRATION

The influence of practice

The influence of environment

SUBJECTS

The portrait

The nude

The landscape

Architecture

The natural world

Still life

Myth

Abstraction

Absence

COLLECTING SOURCE MATERIAL

Taking source photographs

Treasure hunting

Finding a model—portraits and nudes

Photographing portraits and the nude

Anatomy

Still life—making your own subjects

Building an archive

Interiors

Taking it outside

Public and private collections

Found photographs

Non-photographed input—scanning and filters

Using ...

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