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Using the new Mask panel

13Lesson 1, Exploring Photoshop

10 With the Move tool still selected, click on the newly placed ps0102 layer and drag,

repositioning the child’s head to be closer to the lower-left corner. If his hand on the

right is not visible, click and drag the image up slightly, as shown in the  gure.

Reposition the new layer so that the child’s head is in the lower-left corner

of the image.

You will now take a moment to save this as a work  le.

11 Choose File > Save As, to open the Save As dialog box. Using the Save In drop-down

menu, navigate to the ps01lessons folder. Type ps0101_work in the File Name text box

and choose Photoshop (PSD, PDD) from the Format drop-down menu. Then click Save.

Leave the  le open for the next part of this lesson. If the Photoshop Format Options

dialog box appears, press OK.

Using the new Mask panel

Adding masks in Photoshop has been an available feature since the use of channels in the

very  rst version of Photoshop. Over time, both the creation and editing of masks have been

improved to make these features more accessible and easier to use, as is apparent with the

addition of the Masks panel in Photoshop CS4.

1 Select the Lasso tool ( ) from the Tools panel, and click and drag a rough selection

around the boy’s head and visible body. The selection does not have to be perfect, as you

will re ne the edge in the next part of this lesson.

Because you want to select the image to the bottom edge of the window, you should drag outside

of the image area.

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