Chapter 4: Creating Shapes with Selections


In the previous chapters, you created an image using text and a custom shape. You then added some effects to your newly created layers. You’re probably ready now to take your web images to the next level. You want to learn to create shapes, as well as isolate parts of existing images. To do all that, you’ll need to use selections — another important area of Photoshop for the web designer.

In this chapter, you’ll learn about Photoshop’s Selection tools by creating web buttons for the website of Jonathan Bing, attorney-at-law, your first client.

What Are Selections?

Selections are areas of an image you wish to isolate from the rest of an image. With this isolated portion (or selection), you can now modify this area, or paste it onto another image. For example, say you have a digital image of you with an ex-boyfriend or ex-girl- friend. You love how you look in that picture, but would love to get rid of the ex and throw in an image of your favorite movie star.

You can also use selections to make shapes that you tweak into images. In this chapter, you’ll explore creating shapes with selections to build web buttons. In the next chapter, you’ll look at using selections to isolate and combine graphics into a single image.




Web Designer's Guide to Adobe Photoshop
Web Designers Guide to Adobe Photoshop (Wordware Applications Library)
ISBN: 1598220012
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 108
Authors: Chris Tull

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