Part 4 Advanced Photo Fixing

Are you ready to kick it up a notch? Here’s where your photo-editing skills become a bit more extensive. In this part, you’ll learn how to brighten up dark photos, clarify blurry ones, make skin tones look more natural, and even change the color of Grandma’s shirt if you like. Want to delete Cousin Steve’s ex from the family portrait? No problem—just keep reading and you’ll learn how to do that, too.

The first thing to learn, however, is how to isolate just the part of the image you want to work on to make sure you don’t alter the rest of the picture unintentionally. The first three tasks in this part show you different ways to select part of an image so that you can work with it. Even if you skip the rest of the ...

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