Thursday, August 27, 2009

Magic Wand - Part 1

Photoshop Elements has quite an arsenal of Selection tools. We talked briefly about selections in the last blog. It is always a good idea to place items in a photo, that you like to edit, on their own layers. What I didn't say was that you may want to save your final work in two formats - a "PSD" format and/or a "JPG" or "GIF" format. If you save in a "PSD" format you can keep all your separate layers intact so that you can later make changes to these layers. When you save in a "JPG" or "GIF" format, you end up with flattened images -- all layers combined automatically into one image.

In this blog I will introduce you to the "Magic Wand" selection tool. It can be the tool of choice when you have large areas of a similar color to select.
















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