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Gillian Anderson and Hugh Grant: a match made in heaven, perhaps. But the montage above wouldn’t fool even the most news-hungry of tabloid journalists; the pair barely look as if they’re on the same planet. Yet it takes only minor adjustment to give the couple the same warm, healthy color that Mr Grant was so conspicuously lacking before.

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ONE OF THE COMMON problems facing the montage artist is making skintones match. You might place a head on a different body, and then use a new hand to replace the existing one; the chances are that the colors of each component will be wildly different. In this chapter we’ll look at the curves ...

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