Photo-editing will always be an important skill in a graphic designers arsenal, especially when most pictures that are being used in the literature are not taken by professional photographers or stock images.

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Sometimes apart from re-coloring I need to do additional edits to make the picture slightly more generic.

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Or perhaps there is a person in the way, or some distracting wires.

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