Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop CS4 in 24 Hours

Chapter 3. Making Selections

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Discovering the Selection Tools

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Using the Select Menu

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Selecting Large Areas

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Applying Advanced Selection Techniques

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Cutting and Copying

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Cropping

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Now that you’ve learned how to bring images in and out of Photoshop, it’s time to move on to doing some fun stuff with those pictures. The first step is to learn how to isolate the part of the picture you want to work on. That’s where selections come in; when part of the image is selected, the changes you make affect only that area, leaving the rest of the image alone. In this ...