Adobe Photoshop CS5 One-on-One

4. Flatten the image. The multiple layers may be interesting and
   all, but we really don’t need them and having them will make
   the next steps problematic. So click the at the top right of the
   Layers panel and from the pop-up menu choose Flatten Image.


5. Crop the image. Ultimately, we want to get rid of the irregular
   edges, so press C to obtain the crop tool. Draw a crop bound-
   ary that represents the largest rectangle possible that still fits
   within the photograph, as shown in Figure 9-30. When you
   have it where you like it, press Enter or Return.

Figure 9-30.

Figure 9-31.

6. Open the Mini Bridge. To demonstrate the enormity of this
   structure, I think adding a human figure would be helpful. I
   have just the guy for the job. We’ll put me in the figure with
   the assistance of a feature new to CS5, the Mini Bridge. The
   purpose of this tool is self-explanatory: You get access to the
   file browsing capabilities of the (full) Bridge encased in a panel
   in the Photoshop interface. You can open the Mini Bridge in no
   less than four ways, perhaps the easiest of which is to click its
   icon in the options bar, as I’m doing in Figure 9-31.

If you haven’t used the Mini Bridge before, it opens to the

Home panel, as shown in the figure. Click the icon to the left

of Browse Files (the one that looks like a photo of a sailboat,

for reasons known only to Adobe) to do just that, browse files

as you would in the Bridge proper.

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