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How to make a composite image in Photoshop<\/h2>\n

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How to assemble a composite image using Adobe Photoshop<\/p>\n

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Sometimes a photographer makes several images instead of a single one and then blend them together in Photoshop. We call this technique \u201cmaking a composite image\u201d and it may save time and effort for a photographer when a subject is complex and it is hard to get a perfect picture of it in a single exposure.
\nThis is a real-life example of how I did this for this Movado watch..<\/p>\n

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