Adobe Photoshop CS5 One-on-One
Select the lower section of the structure. Press the Shift key to add to your selection, and click around the remaining portion ...
Drag the courthouse into the fireworks image. Press and hold Ctrl (� on the Mac) to get the move tool and then drag the se- lec ...
Figure 3-18. Figure 3-19. Click the red color swatch to the right of Overlay to display the Color Picker dialog box. Select a d ...
Figure 3-20 shows the final effect, complete with radiant courthouse and bombs bursting in air. Granted, it’s an unlikely compos ...
Figure 3-21. Figure 3-22. Open two image files. Locate the Lesson 03 folder inside Lesson Files-PsCS5 and open the files ManlyS ...
Arrange the workspace to focus on the saw image. Since the ManlySaw image.jpg file will be the primary focus of our selec- tion ...
For the record, I clicked at the location illustrated by the cursor in Figure 3-25. The problem is that the relatively light blu ...
Expand the selection using the Grow command. The Select menu provides two commands that let you expand the range of a selection ...
Grab any stray blobs with the lasso tool. The magic wand tool did about as good a job as it’s going to, so it’s time to clean u ...
Reverse the selection. You’ll recall that what we really want to select for our composite is the manly saw and the manly hand w ...
Zoom in on the saw blade. This is a good chance to use a new zoom technique in CS5. Press Ctrl-spacebar (�-spacebar), place you ...
Select the missing parts of the blade. Click in the deselected part of the blade nearest the saw, as indicated in Figure 3-32, ...
The final lasso tool in the toolbox, the magnetic lasso, is one of the most amazing selection tools in Photoshop’s arsenal. No k ...
Save a snapshot of your selection. Given the amount of work we’ve accomplished so far, it would be nice to bookmark this place ...
Enter the Quick Mask mode. The “marching ants” outline prevents us from seeing the edges of the selection di- rectly. To test f ...
Revert the image. To get rid of the quick selection version of the saw blade selection, we need to get back to where we started ...
Figure 3-41. Figure 3-42. Paint away the small spot inside the handle. We’re already in the quick mask mode, so we can paint aw ...
Drag the selection to the new background. After all that work, it’s finally time to move the saw over to the background file th ...
Figure 3-45. Figure 3-46. Delete the saw layer from the composite image. To get rid of that fringing, we need to do some work d ...
Figure 3-47. Drag the saw back to the composite background. Now that we’ve cleaned up the edges, press and hold the Control key ...
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