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    6 tips for polishing and perfecting finished images

    Dec 03, 2019 4 minutes
    BY JD SARTAIN

    You 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.

    1. 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” is a layer in the four-color process.

    When you open a photograph in Photoshop, it has only one layer, the background layer, and

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