September 2006
Beginner
574 pages
24h 23m
English
Content preview from Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual
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Making Selections
One of Elements’ most impressive talents is its ability to let you select part of your
image and make changes only to that area. Selecting something tells Elements,
“Hey, this is what I want to work on. Just let me work on this part of my picture
and don’t touch the rest of it.” You can select your entire image or any part of it.
By using selections, you can fine-tune your images in very sophisticated ways. You
could change the color of just one rose in a whole bouquet, for instance, or change
your nephew’s festive purple hair color back to something his grandparents would
appreciate. Graphics pros will tell you that good selections make the difference
between shoddy amateurish work and a slick professional job.
NOTE The big secret to selecting is to take your time and be accurate. It’s tempting to make
your selections too quickly when you’re first trying your hand at this, but you’ll get better results if
you don’t rush. On the other hand, if you don’t need your selections to be particularly precise, try
out the Magic Selection brush (page 123).
Elements offers you a whole bunch of different selection tools to work with. You
can draw a rectangular or a circular selection with the Marquee tools, for instance,
or paint a selection on your photo with the Selection brush. When you’re looking
to pluck a particular object (a beautiful flower, for instance)
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