Absolute Beginner's Guide to Digital Photography

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■ Pen Path tools. The Pen, Freeform Pen, Add
Anchor, Delete Anchor, and Convert Point
tools.
■ Powerful Quick Mask. Paint a mask that
will become a selection area.
■ Color Range. Sampled Colors, Highlights,
Midtones, and Shadows selections.

The fastest way to learn these tools is to experiment
with each. If you are continuing from the last
chapter, use the test image from earlier exercises or
choose a new one (see Figure 11.1).

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A number of these
tools are not available in
Photoshop Elements. See the last
section in this chapter for details.

FIGURE 11.1
The Audi
Cabriolet we’ll
be using in this
chapter.

The following sections introduce the more obscure Photoshop selection commands
by experimentation.
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