Digital Divorce

Abstract

This section of our book is devoted to real-world projects—the types of tasks people typically want to accomplish, whether for work or pleasure. In this chapter, we’ll show you how to manipulate a photo that could be “just right,” if only it didn’t have that pesky ex-husband or bratty neighbor kid in it, and turn it into a photograph worthy of your treasured photo album. We’ll cover the following topics:

• The Freehand Selection tool

• The Manual Color Correction tool

• The Deform tool

• The Background Eraser tool

• Alpha channel selections