Making selections in photoshop

The items in these lists correspond to menu items in Photoshop. In Photoshop, items are often selected prior to making changes with tools and palettes. Select areas in four ways: Marquee Tool for rectangular and oval areas. Lasso Tool for freeform shapes and silhouettes. Magic and for flat color or similar colored areas of the image. To select the entire image press the ! ke"s together to select all. Tip # # $eselect areas when "ou are finished modif"ing them, %" pressing the $ ke"s. To select a large area of an image in a geometric shape, rectangular or oval: Marquee &lick on the Marquee tool and hold &hoose rectangular or oval shape from the tool%o' &lick on the image and drag over the selected area, then unclick. $eselect areas when "ou are finished modif"ing them, %" pressing the $ ke"s To create a freeform or silhouette of an area of a photo, use the lasso tool by clicking and dragging around the area. You may lasso! and delete to silhouette an image. "asso Tip # &lick and drag along the edge of the selected image (elect the outside edge and the %ackground in small increments, after each selection, press delete to delete the %ackground. Make the %ack ground color in the tool%o' a similar color to the preferred %ackground.

Tip # # !d)ust *eather on the menu to give a soft edge to the silhouette To select flat or similar areas of color, use the Magic and tool. Magic #and &lick on the area that contains the color "ou wish to select. Tip # &hange the amount of Tolerance in the control %o' to set the amount of color variation. The higher the num%er, the more color variations will %e selected with one click. The lower the num%er, the fewer color variations will %e selected. $raser tool &lick and drag over area "ou wish to delete, eraser will continue to erase until "ou release the mouse %utton. %en Tool $raw a path around o%)ect using the pen tool, when path is complete, +o to paths palette, drag the la"er working path down to save path icon, then drag down to create selection. &hange to la"ers palette. &hoose select , inverse, delete To undo the previous command, press -. (tep %ack additional steps, press .ption -. To go %ack to the last saved version of the image, choose /evert from the file menu. .pen the 0istor" Palette under window and delete la"ers that contains "our mistakes.

Warning! Photoshop creates a new la"er ever" time "ou paste in "our file. 1e aware which la"er "ou are currentl" working on, it will %e highlighted in the La"ers indow. The %enefits of separate la"ers are man", so avoid merging la"ers or *latten2ing3 Image until "ou are finished modif"ing "our image. indow La"ers

!void working on the %ackground la"er, it has limited capa%ilities. &reate a new la"er manuall" %" clicking on the triangle in the upper right hand corner of the palette, choose 4ew La"er. $elete la"ers %" highlighting the la"er and dragging it into the Trash &an on the La"ers &hoose which la"ers are visi%le on the screen %" clicking the e"e icon on5off. indow. &lick on a la"er and drag a%ove or %elow other la"ers on the palette to change the order of the overla"s

/esi6e "our image to %e proportionatel" larger or smaller, first select "our image, then# 7dit , Transform , (cale Pull corners of the %o' to resi6e

Tip # # 0old the shift ke" down as "ou ad)ust the si6e of the %o', so the image is resi6ed proportionatel". 0it the /eturn ke" when the si6e is correct indow#

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