Adobe 29180155 User Guide - Page 113

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 4.0 108 User Guide A B C D E F Selection Brush tool options A. Magic Selection Brush tool B. Selection Brush tool C. Add to selection D. Subtract from selection E. Brush preset pop-up palette F. Brush size 1 In the Editor, select the Selection Brush tool from the toolbox. You may need to click the Magic Selection Brush tool in the toolbox and select the Selection Brush from the list of hidden tools that appears. 2 By default, the tool is set to Add To Selection . To subtract from the selection at any time, click Subtract From Selection in the options bar. 3 (Optional) Set Selection Brush tool options in the options bar located above your image: • Choose a brush from the brush presets pop-up palette. • Specify the brush size. • Choose Selection (to add to the selection) or Mask (to subtract from the selection) from the Mode menu. • Set the brush tip's hardness to a value between 1 percent and 100 percent. If you use a soft-edged brush with the Selection Brush tool, changing the Mode option to Mask can help you see the soft edges of the selection. • When using Mask mode, specify an Overlay Opacity between 1 percent and 100 percent. • When using Mask mode, click the Overlay Color swatch and select a color in the Color Picker to set the mask color. This is useful when the mask color (Overlay Color) is too similar to the colors in the photo. 4 Draw in your photo to select or deselect areas. Adding to a selection while in Selection mode (left), and subtracting from a selection while in Mask mode (right) To use the Magic Extractor Use the Magic Extractor to make accurate selections by extracting the foreground and background areas that you specify. You can specify these areas by placing colored dots in the areas you want to mark. After you mark the areas and close the dialog box, only the foreground area appears in the photo in the Editor. The Magic Extractor makes it easy to extract people or objects so that you can select the person or object and superimpose them onto other backgrounds. For example, you can extract yourself from a photo of you on your bicycle at home, and superimpose it on a photo of cyclists in the Tour de France. You can save the extracted image as a file that you can use again and again.