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Get the polygonal lasso tool from the lasso menu on the toolbar. Open up an image of a nice easy to select shape with a few straight lines such as this oriental heating duct. To use the tool just click at each corner point and drag in a new direction...
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The note tool can come in handy as you get further advanced in using Photoshop. You can easily write down note, thoughts, remember techniques or create notes for clients or other users on how to fix the file up...you get the idea. Select the notes tool and just click somewhere on the image...
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Now that you have the foreground subject on top of the pixel stretch background you can easily spice things up with some layer effects. To apply a layer effect you can go to the lower left icon on the bottom of the layers palette and choose specifically which effect you want to apply...
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Here's how to use the singular marquee tools; yes they actually do serve a purpose. Use them when you want to select just a single pixel wide or long across the entire document. You must be on an active layer (that you want to copy from) to do this...
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From the previous tutorial, now you have a duplicate on its own layer that you have created by using the lasso tool and layer: new layer via copy. With the moVe tool you can move this new layer around. Go to edit: Transform and choose scale...
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To start this layer mask tutorial, use the eyedropper tool to get a sample of any color in your document (like an open photo). Click and the sample will now become the foreground color that you can work with...
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I'm going to show you the Clone stamp tool in this tutorial. First another review of how to create a fill. This is one way to do it. First, make a selection with a rectangular marquee (or any other marquee). Here I'm just covering the right half of the document...
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To get the rulers go to View: Rulers and this will bring up a ruler border around the document. Or you can use the shortcut of Ctrl R to toggle on and off the Rulers...
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You can toggle the status bar on or off from the Windows menu. It's at the very bottom of the menu as well as the bottom of your screen. The status bar contains different information about your workspace...
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The easiest way to make a copy of an entire .psd file (or any file) instead of doing the old school method of select: copy: paste and then maybe dragging in layers (which believe it or not I used to do), you can just go to Image: Duplicate...
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