Datasheet

Photoshop Elements 8 All-in-One For Dummies
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Working with the Almighty Undo History Panel ......................................236
Viewing an image’s various states ...................................................236
Navigating through the history states ............................................237
Deleting and clearing states .............................................................237
Book IV: Selections ................................................... 239
Chapter 1: Making Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .241
De ning Selections ......................................................................................241
Selecting a Rectangular or Elliptical Area ................................................242
Fine-tuning squares and circles .......................................................244
Using the Marquee options ..............................................................245
Freeform Selecting with the Lasso Tools .................................................247
Using the Lasso tool ..........................................................................248
Selecting straight sides with the Polygonal Lasso tool .................250
Hugging edges with the Magnetic Lasso tool .................................250
Performing Wand Wizardry ........................................................................253
Talking about Tolerance ...................................................................254
Selecting with the Magic Wand tool ................................................254
Painting with the Selection Brush .............................................................256
Saving Time with the Quick Selection Tool ..............................................258
Resizing Smartly with the Recompose Tool .............................................260
Chapter 2: Modifying and Transforming Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . .263
Modifying Selections ...................................................................................263
Adding to a selection .........................................................................264
Subtracting from a selection ............................................................265
Intersecting two selections ...............................................................266
Avoiding Keyboard Collisions ....................................................................266
Adding a perfectly square or circular selection ............................266
Deleting from an existing selection
while drawing from the center out ..............................................267
Using the Select Menu .................................................................................267
Selecting all or nothing .....................................................................268
Reselecting a selection ......................................................................268
Inversing a selection ..........................................................................268
Feathering a selection .......................................................................269
Using the Modify commands ............................................................269
Applying the Grow and Similar commands ....................................271
Saving and loading selections ..........................................................272
Moving and Cloning Selections ..................................................................273
Cloning ................................................................................................273
Moving the selection outline, but not the pixels ...........................273
Transforming Pixels ....................................................................................274