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Copy and Paste Selected Pixels
Like many processes in Photoshop, there are various methods for compositing Watch the videos
multiple images into a single file. In this exercise, you will use the most basic Using Selection
selection tool — the Rectangle Marquee tool. Tool in Photo­
shop, Parts 1 and 2 in
1. With cd-artwork.psd open, choose View>Fit on Screen to show the entire your online student
image centered in the document window. resources.

2. Open the file Tornado.jpg from your WIP>Music folder.
If you see a profile mismatch warning when opening the files for this project, choose Note:
the option to use the embedded profile. Color management will be explained in
Project 3: Museum Image Correction. When you created the
background file for
3. With Tornado.jpg the active file in the document window, open the Image this project, you cre-
Size dialog box (Image>Image Size). ated a raster image that

This image is only contains pixels. Digital
150 ppi, but it has a photographs and scans
physical size much are also pixel-based,
larger than the which is why you use
defined size for the Photoshop to edit and
CD artwork. As with manipulate those types
the original image, of files.
the principle of
effective resolution
might make this Note:
image usable in the
composite ad. You can press Com-
mand-Option-I/Con-
4. Click Cancel to close the Image Size dialog box. trol-Alt-I to open the
Image Size dialog box.
5. Choose the Rectangular Marquee tool in the Tools panel and review the
options in the Options bar.
A B C D E F G H
By default, dragging with a marquee tool creates
a new selection. You can use the buttons on
the left end of the Options bar to
define what happens if you draw Rectangular
more than one marquee. Marquee tool
A. New Selection creates a new selection each time you create a new marquee.
B. Add to Selection adds the area of a new marquee to the existing selected area.
C. Subtract from Selection removes the area of a new marquee from the existing
selection.
D. Intersect with Selection results in a selection only where a new marquee
overlaps an existing selection.
E. Feather softens the edges of a selection by a specified number of pixels.
F. Use the Style menu to choose a normal selection, a fixed-ratio selection, or a
fixed-size selection.
G. When Fixed Ratio or Fixed Size is selected, enter the size of the selection in the
Width and Height fields.
H. Click this button to reverse the Width and Height fields.

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