Combining Images with Photoshop Elements: Selecting, Layering, Masking, and Compositing [With CDROM]

290 Pages·2006·42.442 MB·English

by  LoCascio, Ted

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Combining Images
with Photoshop
®
Elements
Selecting, Layering, Masking,
and Compositing
Ted LoCascio
WILEY PUBLISHING, INC.
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Combining Images
with Photoshop
®
Elements
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Combining Images
with Photoshop
®
Elements
Selecting, Layering, Masking,
and Compositing
Ted LoCascio
WILEY PUBLISHING, INC.
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For my son, Enzo,
whom I can never take enough pictures of
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