- Select the lower section of the structure. Press the Shift key to
add to your selection, and click around the remaining portions
of the building (releasing the Shift key after the initial click).
By my reckoning, you’re looking at a grand total of seventeen
corners, all indicated by the proliferation of yellow arrowheads
in Figure 3-14. It’s a complex selection—especially along that
geometric column on the left side of the dome—so don’t feel
like you have to pull it off in one pass. As long as you start with
the Shift key down, you can add areas to your selection in as
many pieces as you like.
Figure 3-14.Figure 3-15.If you find yourself struggling, failing, or on the brink of tears, go
ahead and use my seventeen-point selection outline, which is ready and
waiting for you. Choose Select→Load Selection. In the dialog box, set
the Channel option to Left & Bottom. Turn on Add to Selection and
click OK.However you get there, the entire courthouse—from one ex-
treme to the other—should appear encased in one great ani-
mated selection outline. Granted, we’ve rounded off a few details
here and there, but nothing that the viewer is going to miss.- Arrange your images so you can drag between them. Depend-
ing on a variety of decisions you’ve made up to this point, ei-
ther with or without my supervision, you may find yourself in
a view that does not allow dragging a selection from one image
into another. So before we attempt just such a maneuver, click
the Arrange Documents icon in the application bar and choose
the vertical 2 Up icon from the menu, as shown in Figure 3-15.
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