Imagine your Grandmother’s delight in receiving a personalized postcard from you that has you and your brother’s picture on it, or your wife’s smile when she sees the postcard you made from your honeymoon vacation photos. If it’s done right, sometimes a home made card means a whole lot more besides “I’m broke” or “I’m corny”, if it’s done right it can be a great to show that you really care.
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In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through the techniques I’ve used to create this e-book cover.  Of course, there are several different ways to approach this, a lot of which is basic or intermediate Photoshop skills.  I’ll share a couple interesting tricks that you can do to give your e-book that special shine.
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Obviously it is every photographers dream to shoot the perfect shot, and often times that’s why a photograph will use 4 rolls of film on the same subject.  The more attempts that are made, the better the chance that the end result will be amazing.  Still, sometimes people just don’t have the time, money, or patience to get that killer shot.  Often that means some minor adjustments in Photoshop to correct the issues with shot.  However, there are times when an entire photograph needs a transplant.  In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through how to put a different sky into a photograph in order to give the image a more vibrant look appropriate for our theoretical project.
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