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| Selection Tools and Techniques | |
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| The Creative Process and Configuring Photoshop | |
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| A Brief History of Combining Images | |
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| Types of Image Composites | |
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| The Imagemaking Journey | |
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| Photoshop Preferences | |
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| Color Settings | |
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| Configuring the Color Settings | |
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| Color Management Policies | |
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| Selection Strategies and Essentials | |
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| What Is a Selection? | |
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| Types of Selections | |
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| Geometric Shape Selections | |
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| Form-based Selections | |
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| Color and Tone Selections | |
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| Combining Tools | |
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| Working with Quick Mask | |
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| The Essential Select Menu | |
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| Select Menu Introduction | |
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| Color Range | |
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| Feather | |
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| The Modify Menu | |
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| Transform Selection | |
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| Save and Load Selection | |
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| Moving Channels and Selections | |
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| Pen Tool Power | |
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| When to Use the Pen Tool | |
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| Complex Paths and Combining Paths | |
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| Working with Paths | |
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| Combining Paths and Selections | |
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| Layers and Masks Exposed | |
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| Masks are Your Friends | |
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| Types of Photoshop Masks | |
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| Working with Alpha Channels | |
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| The Five Steps to Alpha Mastery | |
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| Creative Techniques Using Alpha Masks | |
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| Vector Masks | |
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| Layers are Your Friends | |
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| Working with Layers | |
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| Types of Layers | |
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| Layers Palette Anatomy | |
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| Finessing Layers | |
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| Working with Image Effects Layers | |
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| The Power of Layer Masking | |
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| Working with Layer Masks | |
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| Seamlessly Blending Images | |
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| Merging Photographic Exposures | |
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| Luminance Masking Techniques | |
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| Selecting and Preserving Fine Detail | |
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| Selecting Hair and Fine Detail | |
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| Accentuating Differences | |
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| Finding the Mask Within | |
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| Working with the Extract Filter | |
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| Advanced Selection Techniques | |
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| Opposites and Differences Attract | |
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| The Multi-Pass Technique | |
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| Image Calculations | |
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| Selecting Translucency and Green Screen Techniques | |
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| Glass and Translucency | |
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| Selecting Motion Blur and Cloth | |
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| Playing with Fire, Smoke, and Fireworks | |
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| Blue Screen and Green Screen Techniques | |
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| Subjective and Objective Compositing | |
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| Image Execution and Photography | |
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| Executing the Image | |
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| Photography for Compositing | |
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| Photographic Essentials | |
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| Photorealistic Compositing | |
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| Photorealistic Compositing Details, Details, Details | |
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| Matching Perspective | |
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| Enhancing Focus and Atmosphere | |
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| Harmonizing Light and Shadow | |
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| Matching Color and Image Texture | |
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| Shaping Image Elements | |
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| Creative Compositing | |
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| Images and Inspiration | |
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| Scanning for Compositing | |
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| Essentials of Image Composition | |
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| Combining Images Subjectively | |
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| Overcoming a Creative Block | |
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| Personal Signifiers | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Index | |