Selecting a Head

You can choose among the potato, the onion, or the egg for the head. This exercise uses the egg. Follow these steps:

1. With the Navigator, zoom out so that you can see the egg, the onion, and the potato.

2. Press Shift-M to select the Elliptical Marquee tool or choose it from the Marquee fly-out in the Tool palette. Place your cursor in the approximate center of the egg. Press the Option/Alt key as you drag an ellipse from the center. As you near the edge, press the spacebar (but don t release the Option/Alt key!). Drag the marquee to accurately position it so that it just touches the edge. Release the spacebar to resize, and press it again to reposition the marquee until you ve centered and positioned the selection outline on the edge of the egg. Release the mouse first and then the keys.

3. Choose the Move tool. Place the cursor inside the marquee and drag the egg to position it on the mannequin , as in Figure H1.6.

   
   Figure H1.6: The egg positioned on the mannequin

4. Press /Ctrl-D to deselect and /Ctrl-S to save the document.