Absolute Beginner's Guide to Digital Photography

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In this chapter



  • Introduction to Selection Tools

  • The Photoshop Toolbox

  • Introduction to Image Editing

  • Color Balance 101


Editing with Selection


Tools


Have you ever cut out parts of several pictures and pasted them together


into one image? Or have you ever had a portrait in which you wished


you could somehow eliminate the background? Ever receive or take a


photo and wish you could lighten a shadow on the face of a friend?


The first step to making changes like these is to tell the imaging soft-


ware what parts of the image you want to work with. This process is


called selecting an area of the image, or simply making a selection (see


Figure 10.1). This chapter explains in depth all the selection tools avail-


able in Photoshop to budding digital photographers.

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