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Chapter 4: Cutting, Extracting, and Masking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .397
Working with the Cookie Cutter Tool .......................................................398
Using the Magic Extractor ..........................................................................399
Selective Erasing with the Eraser Tools ...................................................402
Using the Eraser tool .........................................................................402
Selecting and erasing by color .........................................................403
Removing the background from an image ......................................404
Working with Layer Masks .........................................................................406
Creating Clipping Masks .............................................................................408
Book VII: Filters, Effects, Styles, and Distortions ........ 411
Chapter 1: Making Corrections and Having Fun with Filters. . . . . . .413
Understanding Filter Basics .......................................................................413
Applying lters ...................................................................................414
Corrective and destructive lters .................................................... 414
Single and multistep lters ...............................................................415
Reapplying a lter ..............................................................................416
Fading a lter ......................................................................................416
Selectively applying a lter ...............................................................417
Working in the Filter Gallery ......................................................................417
Having Fun with Filters ...............................................................................420
Correcting camera distortion ...........................................................420
The Facet lter ...................................................................................421
Getting artsy .......................................................................................422
Stroking your image ...........................................................................424
Distorting for fun ................................................................................425
Getting noisy.......................................................................................425
Breaking your image into pieces ......................................................427
Rendering ............................................................................................427
Getting organic with the Sketch lters ............................................ 429
Adding texture ....................................................................................430
Chapter 2: Distorting with the Liquify Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .433
Exploring the Liquify Window ....................................................................433
The distortion painting tools ...........................................................434
The other tools ...................................................................................436
The Options Area .........................................................................................437
Distorting an Image with Liquify ................................................................437
Chapter 3: Adding Pizzazz with Styles and Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .441
Seeing What the Effects Panel Can Do ......................................................441
Enhancing with Photo Effects ..........................................................442
Working with layer styles .................................................................443
Editing layer styles ............................................................................446