Chapter Three. Choosing the Scene and Subject
When beginning an artistic project in Adobe Photoshop CS4, you might be tempted to skip the relatively boring details of planning and preparation and dive right into the process of crafting your imagery. Although this can lead you in unexpected directions (sometimes with good results), more often than not “leaping without looking” will result in frustration unless you have unlimited time (and even budget) for endless experimentation.
Photoshop compositing projects are like any other project: You need a clear objective and some semblance of a plan to achieve that objective in a reasonable amount of time with the tools and capabilities you have on hand. Two big parts of successful planning are choosing ...
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