Editing your digital images without the mystery, Part III: compositing

Welcome to the third and final installation of the Ars Digital Imaging workshop. In this last one, we'll be getting into the hardest part of digital imaging: compositing. "Composite" is just a ten-dollar word for a combination of images and here we'll be covering how to combine one or more photos for convincing results. If you're brand new to digital imaging and don't know say, the definition of "digital" or "imaging," then I suggest a little more reading on the subject before jumping head first into this tutorial. It's written assuming you've got a basic understanding of level adjustments, curves, selection by color, feathering and layer masks since that's what we covered in the first two articles