Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop CS3 in 24 Hours

Chapter 3. Making Selections

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• The Selection Tools

• The Select Menu

• Selecting Large Areas

• Advanced Selection Techniques

• Cutting and Copying

• Cropping

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Now you’re making progress. You’ve learned how to bring images in and out of Photoshop. The next step is learning to work with images and edit them. To do this, you have to select a part of the picture on which you want to work. Selections are just what they seem to be—portions of the image that you have selected.

The Selection Tools

You can select a piece of a picture in several ways. You can use any of the Selection tools: Marquee tools, Lasso tools, the Quick Selection tool, or the Magic Wand. You have different kinds of Selection tools because ...