120 PCWorld DECEMBER 2019HERE’S HOW
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ou have many choices among
photo editing software
programs, whether it’s
Adobe Photoshop, Corel
Painter, Paintshop Pro, GIMP.net, and
more—all of which now have very similar
feature sets. These basic photo editing
tips will help you work in pretty much any
application available.- WORKING WITH LAYERS
IN PHOTO EDITING
The “magic” of Photoshop and its clones is
the Layers feature. It’s analogous to color
separations, where each of the four colors
(cyan, magenta, yellow, and black) in the
four-color process are printed on separate
plates, then printed on top of each other to
create a full-color image. Each “CMYK plate”
6 tips for polishing and
perfecting finished images
Make your digital images even better by using photo editing software
to polish and perfect the finished images. BY JD SARTAIN