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9. Choose Edit>Copy.
The standard Cut, Copy, and Paste options are available in Photoshop, just as they are Note:
in most applications. Whatever you have selected will be copied to the Clipboard, and
whatever is in the Clipboard will be pasted. If you want to move
a marquee, make sure
10. Click the Close button on the Tornado.jpg document tab to close that file. the Marquee tool is still
selected. If the Move
11. With the cd-artwork.psd file active, choose Edit>Paste. tool is active, clicking

The copied selection is pasted in the center of the document window. If you remember inside the marquee and
from the Image Size dialog box, the tornado image was approximately 30″ × 20″ at dragging will actually
150 ppi. Photoshop cannot maintain multiple resolutions in a single file. When you move the contents within
paste the copied content into the cd-artwork file, it adopts the resolution of the target the selection area.
file (in this case, 300 ppi). The concept of effective resolution transforms the selected
area (20.5″ × 18″) of the tornado image to approximately 10.25″ × 9″ at 300 ppi.
Note:

When creating a new
selection with a marquee
tool, pressing Option/
Alt places the center of
the selection marquee
at the point where you
click; when you drag out,
the marquee is created
around that point.

Note:

When the New Selection
12. Open the Layers panel (Window>Layers). option is active, press
Shift to add to the
The original cd-artwork.psd file had only one layer — Background. When you copy or
drag content from one file into another, it is automatically placed on a new layer with current selection or
the default name “Layer n”, where “n” is a sequential number. press Option/Alt to
subtract from the current
The document tab shows the selection.
name of the active layer.
A new layer (Layer 1) is
added to contain the
contents that you pasted
from the Tornado.jpg file.

The Background layer
contains the original
Sunrise.jpg file content.

Note:
13. Choose File>Save, and read the resulting message.
If you don’t see this
Because this is the first time you have saved
the file after adding new layers, you should warning, check the
see the Photoshop Format Options dialog File Handling pane of
box with the Maximize Compatibility the Preferences dialog
check box already activated. It’s a good idea box. You can set the
to leave this check box selected so that your Maximize PSD and PSB
files will be compatible with other Adobe applications and other versions of Photoshop. File Compatibility menu
to Always, Never, or Ask.
14. Make sure the Maximize Compatibility check box is selected and click OK,
then continue to the next exercise.

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