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Step Four: It’s good practice to save your selec-

tion (so you don’t lose it): Go to Select>Save

Selection and you’ll be presented with a dialog

where you can name your selection. In this case,

we’ll name it “tower.” Note that when you save

a selection, you can save it under any of the cur-

rently open documents—this may be useful to

remember for later.

Step Five: With the tower dealt with, we can

move on to the phone image. We’ll make a selec-

tion within the phone to mark out the screen

using the Polygonal Lasso tool (press Shift-L

until it’s active in the Toolbar). We’ll estimate a

screen area in this image from which the tower

will rise. With the tool selected, click one corner

of the screen as a starting point, and then click

the next three corners to demarcate the limits of

your screen. With each click, a straight line will

be drawn until you reach the starting corner. As

you get close to the starting point, the cursor will

change to include a small circle, and when you

click, the line will automatically join up with the

first point to create the selection.

Step Six: We need to save this selection, as

well, using the same method as we used for the

tower in Step 4. Name this selection “screen.”