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Photoshop Elements 6 For Dummies
Sticking Digital Notes on Your Photos.......................................................130
Automating Your Organization...................................................................131
Automating common tasks when you export.................................131
Renaming files.....................................................................................134
Protecting Your Photos ...............................................................................135
Backing up your catalog....................................................................135
Backing up photos and files..............................................................136
Part III: Selecting and Correcting Photos ....................137
Chapter 7: Making and Modifying Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .139
Defining Selections.......................................................................................139
Creating Rectangular and Elliptical Selections.........................................140
Perfecting squares and circles with Shift and Alt ..........................141
Applying marquee options................................................................142
Making Freeform Selections with the Lasso Tools...................................144
Selecting with the Lasso tool............................................................144
Getting straight with the Polygonal Lasso tool ..............................146
Snapping with the Magnetic Lasso tool...........................................147
Working Wizardry with the Magic Wand...................................................149
Talking about tolerance.....................................................................149
Wielding the wand to select..............................................................150
Modifying Your Selections ..........................................................................151
Adding to a selection .........................................................................151
Subtracting from a selection.............................................................152
Intersecting two selections ...............................................................152
Avoiding key collisions......................................................................152
Painting with the Selection Brush..............................................................153
Painting with the Quick Selection Brush...................................................155
Working with the Cookie Cutter Tool ........................................................156
Eliminating with the Eraser Tools..............................................................158
The Eraser tool ...................................................................................159
The Background Eraser tool .............................................................159
The Magic Eraser tool........................................................................160
Using the Magic Extractor Command........................................................161
Using the Select Menu .................................................................................163
Selecting all or nothing......................................................................163
Reselecting a selection ......................................................................163
Inversing a selection ..........................................................................164
Feathering a selection........................................................................164
Refining the edges of a selection......................................................164
Using the Modify commands ............................................................165
Applying the Grow and Similar commands.....................................166
Saving and loading selections...........................................................166
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