Adobe® Photoshop® CS2 Studio Techniques

Select All

Select > All selects the entire document. This can be useful when you need to trim off any part of an image that extends beyond the edge of the document (Figure 2.53).

Figure 2.53. An example of areas that extend beyond the document's bounds (these areas are not usually visible). (©2005 Stockbyte, www.stockbyte.com)

You can crop out those areas by choosing Select > All and then Image > Crop (Figure 2.54). Also, if you need to copy an entire image, you'll need to select everything, because without a selection, the Copy command will be grayed out.

Figure 2.54. When cropping the image, the information that used to extend beyond the ...