User Guide

CHAPTER 1

A Quick Tour of Adobe Photoshop

First, you’ll make a simple selection, and drag an

image from one ﬁle to another.

1 Click the title bar of the CD.psd window to

make it active.

2 Hold down the mouse button on the rectan-

gular marquee tool ( ) in the toolbox, and drag

to the elliptical marquee tool ( ). Click in the

upper left corner of the image’s gray background,

and begin dragging diagonally. Then hold down

Shift to change the elliptical selection to a circular

selection, and drag to the bottom right corner of

the image.

3 When the selection border matches the outside

edge of the CD, release the mouse button and then

release Shift.

4 Select the move tool ( ) in the toolbox,

position it within the selection border, and drag

the CD onto the Tour.psd window. The CD is now

part of that ﬁle.

Now you’ll resize the CD.

5 Choose Edit > Free Transform. Move the

pointer onto one of the corner handles. Hold

down Shift, and drag a corner handle to shrink the

CD to about three-fourths its current size.

Holding down Shift constrains the image’s

proportions as you resize it.

6 Move the pointer outside the selection handles,

and drag clockwise to rotate the CD about 30

Press Enter (Windows) or Return (Mac OS) to

apply the transformation to the CD.

Note: You can also use the Numeric Transform

dialog box to transform a selection using speciﬁc

numeric values.

Next, you’ll make a selection with the magic wand

tool, which selects areas based on how similar they

are in color.