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CHAPTER 1 14
A Quick Tour of Adobe Photoshop
First, you’ll make a simple selection, and drag an
image from one file to another.
1
Click the title bar of the CD.psd window to
make it active.
2
Hold down the mouse button on the rectan-
gular marquee tool ( ) in the toolbox, and drag
to the elliptical marquee tool ( ). Click in the
upper left corner of the image’s gray background,
and begin dragging diagonally. Then hold down
Shift to change the elliptical selection to a circular
selection, and drag to the bottom right corner of
the image.
3 When the selection border matches the outside
edge of the CD, release the mouse button and then
release Shift.
4
Select the move tool ( ) in the toolbox,
position it within the selection border, and drag
the CD onto the Tour.psd window. The CD is now
part of that file.
Now you’ll resize the CD.
5
Choose Edit > Free Transform. Move the
pointer onto one of the corner handles. Hold
down Shift, and drag a corner handle to shrink the
CD to about three-fourths its current size.
Holding down Shift constrains the image’s
proportions as you resize it.
6 Move the pointer outside the selection handles,
and drag clockwise to rotate the CD about 30
°
.
Press Enter (Windows) or Return (Mac OS) to
apply the transformation to the CD.
Note: You can also use the Numeric Transform
dialog box to transform a selection using specific
numeric values.
Next, you’ll make a selection with the magic wand
tool, which selects areas based on how similar they
are in color.