9-16-09-+Marquee+notes

9-16-09 Author: Julia S =What is a Marquee?= A marquee is a tool that lets you select a piece of a picture and extracts the particular section. you can move it, and modify the marquee as much or as little as you want to. =Changing the size of the marquee.= There is more the one way tha you can change the size of the marquee tool. 1. start by clicking on the the seletion bar in the tool box, and then clicking add to selction. After you have selcted this, then you can click on the picture anywhere you wish and the marquee will be added to the previous marquee you had created. 2. The next option you have is by clicking on the Grow button. Start by going up the selection button in the tool box and clicking on it, then scroll down to the grow button and click it, this selects all the pixals around the previous marquee and makes it bigger. =Modifying the marquee= This action lets you expand, contracting it, smooth out any edges, and enlarge it. You start by going up to select in the menu bar, click on the word Modify, and then select any one of those commands. By clicking the word EXPAND, you allow the selced section to get bigger. When you smooth out the edges you are creatin a better looking picture. When you enlarge the marquee you allow a boarder to be around the picture, and make it look smooth and complete. =Moving a Marquee= You also have the option to move the marquee. When you create the Marquee you can move it around to anywhere you want on the photo. Not only can you move it around on the photo, but you can move it to a diffrent document. All you have to do is move your cursor to the center of the picture, and drag it to the location that you want. =Using the color range tool= Lets say you have an all black cat and a white backround and you just want the cat, we can do that. All you have to do is go up to the Menu bar and click on the selection bar, then you scroll down to the Color Range option and click it. A box will show up with selections that you may want to click on. You will make sure that you click the circle image, then make sure the fuzziness is all the way at 0, then click on the invert button, and click ok. This will take the white backround out and leave you with just the cat. =Magic Wand Tool= When you click on the magic wand tool, then you have a variety of options you have. 1. Tolerance: this tool is used for allowing similar pixals to be seleted. this tool has a range of 0-225, the lower the value the closer the pixals will be. 2. Anti-aliased check box: this softens the apperance. 3. Contigous check box: this lets you select all the pixals that are close to each other. 4. Use all layer: lets you select pixals from all layers. =Transforming a Selection= This lets you have the option of changing size and other things about the picture. Start by going up to the edit button on the menu bar and then click on the button Transform. After you click this button then small squars will appear on your screen. you click and drag this option till you have the picture the way that you wanted it, then click enter to complete this task. You can also use this command to flip pictures horizontally, vertical, and any way you would like it to be. =Healing Tool= If you dont like a certain thing in the picture, you can use this tool to remove it. If you have acne or any blemishes on your face that you dont want anymore, then you can remove them. Go to the side tool bar and click on the zoom button and zoom in on the imperfection you wish to get ride of. After you have zoomed in, then go to side tool bar again and click on the band-aid looking tool, then go to a certain area that has about the same color as you need and hold down the ALT key. This has taken a small picture of the area you wanted and now you can make the imperfection go away. The last step is click and drag over the imperfection, and then it will vanish.