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The paste into as well as the inverse or invert command will allow you to make very precise selections and control what areas are selected as opposed to what areas are not selected. And once again I'm going to show you how to do this to manipulate an image. So I'm gonna grab my polygonal lasso tool and my goal is to take this image here of trees, this whole image, and I want to put it in this window specifically and I'm gonna zoom in on that window and you're gonna find out that when I paste it in here you'll have full control over it and can still rotate it and resize it and all that kinds of stuff in the selection. So with this tool selected I'm gonna click, move my mouse, click, move my mouse to draw out a selection. Once again don't forget you're not gonna drag with this tool, you're simply clicking and moving your mouse and I'm gonna grab the whole window and I wanna add to this selection so I have to hold down the shift key now to grab these portions of the window that are not included in our original selection. And once again I' holding down the shift key and I'm gonna grab this part and now I have my selection. Let's go to the other image here of trees and I'm gonna select all, once again I can also use the shortcut command or control A, and I'm gonna go to edit and I'm gonna choose to copy. Once again you can also use the short cut command or control C and now I copied that to the clipboard. I'm gonna deselect it by pressing command or control D, jump back over to see brown and now I'm gonna go to edit and I'm gonna choose this amazing command which I love, paste into and there it is the trees are in there but watch this I can press command or control T and I get my handles, let me go ahead and zoom out a little bit, and I'm gonna do that again command or control T and I can resize, I can move and rotate that new image in that selection and that's the beauty of that command. You see we have a, a mask that's been applied to this layer so you can do all kinds of stuff. You can paint bigger areas of that away, you can make it smaller, whatever you wanna do and you haven't affected the actual image itself. I can always hide that and get back to my original. That is the beauty of the paste into command. Use it all the time, it will make you smile and it gives you lots of control. Now lets go to the original layer here, the background layer where the character is. I'm going to show you how to use this command here which is inverse. It's ghosted out right now because we have to have a selection. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna grab that uh lasso tool and I'm gonna just once again draw a selection around the entire window and once again I am gonna be very fast on this one so I can just show you what happens here. Now currently this window is selected right, but what if I don't want to affect what's in the window I want to affect everything else but not the window. I'm gonna go to select inverse now the windows protected and I'm gonna prove that to you by grabbing my brush, everything else is affected except for the window. Now I can apply special effects. I can go to my adjustments and I can choose to do a variations for example and I can add more blue and everything gets blue except for that window. I'll go back to the artwork and you see that by using inverse I can now have control over what areas I'm affecting as opposed to what areas I'm not affecting. If at anytime I want to then do something to the window go back to select inverse and now you can apply an effect such as a blur in the window. So let me go ahead and put a blur in there and show you that I'm affecting the pixels of the window itself. How cool is that. So once again to have some control over you image, to do all kinds of special effects and only affect portions that you wanna control use the paste into command as well as the select inverse command to invert your selection.
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop CS3 |
| Author: | Dwayne Ferguson |
| SKU: | 33782 |
| ISBN: | 1-933736-98-4 |
| Release Date: | 2007-08-02 |
| Duration: | 9 hrs / 161 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |