User's Manual

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ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS2
User Guide
Deleting a selection on a background or on a layer with the Lock Transparency option selected in the Layers palette
replaces the original location with the background color. Deleting a selection on a layer without Lock Transparency
selected replaces the original area with the layer transparency.
To load a saved selection into an image
1 Choose Select > Load Selection.
2 Specify the Source options in the Load Selection dialog box:
Document Chooses the active file as the source.
Channel Chooses the channel containing the selection you want to load.
Invert Makes the nonselected areas selected.
3 Select an Operation option to specify how to combine the selections if the image already has a selection:
New Selection Adds the loaded selection.
Add To Selection Adds the loaded selection to any existing selections in the image.
Subtract From Selection Subtracts the loaded selection from existing selections in the image.
Intersect With Selection Saves a selection from an area intersected by the loaded selection and existing selections
in the image.
See also
“To save a mask selection” on page 343
To load a saved selection in ImageReady
❖ Choose Select > Load Selection, and then choose an option from the submenu.
See also
“To save a mask selection” on page 343
To load a selection from another image
1 Open the two images you want to use.
2 Make the destination image active, and choose Select > Load Selection.
3 Specify the following options in the Load Selection dialog box:
Document Chooses the source image.
Channel Chooses the channel containing the selection you want to load as a mask.
Invert Makes the nonselected areas selected.
Operation Specifies how to combine the selections if the destination image already has a selection.
You can drag a selection from one open Photoshop image into another.