Selections With Adobe Photoshop CS3

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Selections With Adobe Photoshop CS3 Welcome to Photoshop CS3 tutorials. Note: Learning how to select areas of an image is of primary importance-you must first select what you want to affect.

1 Selections With Adobe Photoshop CS3 Welcome to Photoshop CS3 tutorials. Note: Learning how to select areas of an image is of primary importance-you must first select what you want to affect. Once you've made a selection, only the area within the selection can be edited. Area outside the selection are protected from change. Learn how to do the following: Select parts of an image using a variety of tools. Deselect a selection. Move and duplicate a selection. Choose areas of an image based on proximity or color of pixels. Adjust a selection with the arrow keys. Add to and subtract from selections. Rotate, scale, and transform a selection. Combine selection tools. Use the clone stamp. In this Project we will be selecting Washington and Lincoln heads and swapping their locations. **Before starting** ( Right click on the image below and Save it to your computer. Name it RockFace, this name should be in place when you save it).

2 Launch Photoshop, go to File > Open image called RockFace. Using the Move Tool Left click in the Layers panel and Drag the RockFace Layer to the create New Layer to make a copy of the image so if you make a mistake that can't be fixed you still have the original image to deal with.

Now that you have the RockFace image in Photoshop go to File >New and create a new window, call it Face. Use Pixels, 200 for the width and 150 for the height.

Note: You can also make the copy of the head, by going to Layer > New > Layer via Copy(Ctrl+J) instead of dragging it to a new window, and it will be on its own layer.

3 Now that you have the RockFace image in Photoshop go to File >New and create a new window, call it Face. Use Pixels, 200 for the width and 150 for the height. The Resolution is 96 pixels/inch and the Mode is RGB color with a white background. Note: You can also make the copy of the head, by going to Layer > New > Layer via Copy(Ctrl+J) instead of dragging it to a new window, and it will be on its own layer. In the past I would have used the Magnetic Lasso tool or the Magic Wand Tool, and used the Lasso tool for clean up which I still use. But Adobe came out with a New selection tool with CS3 called "Quick Selection tool" located under the Magic Wand. With the Quick selection tool you

Using one of the methods of Copying the selected head (Right Click in the selection area using one of the selection tools > Menu selection > LayerViaCopy.

4 left click and drag to select what you want to have selected. It's not perfect but the better you know the tools the easier a job is to do. The Magnetic Lasso tool uses anchor points as the selection is created. Example of the Magnetic Lasso Tool selecting the head. Using one of the methods of Copying the selected head (Right Click in the selection area using one of the selection tools > Menu selection > LayerViaCopy. Now that the selection is made, Drag it using your Move tool to your Face image window that you created. Note: You will still have the original head in place it will not change, so you won't have an empty space to deal with.

** To Deselect the head on the original use Ctrl+D. ** Now use a selection tool of your choice to select Lincoln's head. Once Lincoln head is selected, keep the selection tool activated.

5 ** To Deselect the head on the original use Ctrl+D. ** Now use a selection tool of your choice to select Lincoln's head. Once Lincoln head is selected, keep the selection tool activated. Right click inside of Lincoln's head and Left click on Layer Via Copy. Now Lincoln's head copy is on it's own layer. Drag Lincoln's head onto Washington's head. When moving a selected area and it doesn't match, you may need to use Transform which is located under Edit > Transform > Scale or Rotate (Ctrl+T) what ever you need to position it in to place.

6 Now add a Mask (select Add Layer Mask button located at the bottom of the Layers panel) to the Lincoln's head layer and use the Paint Brush Tool to clean up and smooth out the top of Lincoln's head.

7 Drag Washington's head onto Lincoln's original head.

8 Place Washington's head where you feel it looks best. Once in place, The next process is to use the Clone Stamp. Click on Clone Stamp tool to select it, place the stamp over the area that you want to clone, Press the Alt button and left click to select the area. Once you have selected the area left click and paint the area you would like to change and blend the area so it looks natural. Final work

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