September 2006
Beginner
574 pages
24h 23m
English
Content preview from Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual
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Chapter 5: Making Selections 115
Selecting Irregularly
Sized Areas
Selecting Irregularly Sized Areas
It would be nice if you could always get away with making simple rectangular or
elliptical selections, but is life really ever that neat? You aren’t always going to want
to select a block-shaped chunk of your image. If you want to change the color of
one fish in your aquarium picture, selecting a rectangle or square isn’t going to cut
it.
Thankfully, Elements gives you other tools that make it easy for you to make very
precise selections—no matter their size or shape. In this section, you’ll learn how
to use the rest of the Selection tools. But first you need to understand the basic
controls that they (almost) all share.
Controlling the Selection Tools
If you’re the kind of person who never makes a mistake and you also never change
your mind, you can skip this section. If, on the other hand, you’re human, you
need to know about the mysterious little squares you see in the Options bar when
the Selection tools are active (Figure 5-3).
UP TO SPEED
Paste vs. Paste Into
Newcomers to Elements are often confused by the fact
that there are two Paste commands in Elements: Paste
and Paste Into Selection. Knowing what each one does
will help you avoid problems.
• Paste. 99 percent of the time, Paste is the one you
want. This command simply places your copied
object wherever you paste it. Once you’ve pasted
your object, ...
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