2. Select the background layer, and drag it to the
Create A New Layer icon.
3. Rename the new layer ???Vignette.???
4. Select the Elliptical Marquee tool.
5. Create a selection around the desired section
of the portrait. Remember, you can press the
SPACEBAR to move the selection as you??™re
creating it. To fine-tune the position of the
selection, click inside the selection, and drag to
the desired location.
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Fix a Photo with the Clone Tool
Sometimes, bad things happen to good photographs. For example, you may
have inadvertently grown a telephone pole out of your subject??™s head, or you
want to remove adults from pictures of your child??™s birthday party. You can fix
problems like this with the Clone tool.
1. Open the image that has an object you need to clone out.
2. Select the Polygonal Lasso tool, and create a selection around the object you need
to clone out, as shown here.
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6. Choose Select | Feather to open the Feather
Selection dialog box. When you feather a
selection, you create a region where the pixels
inside the selection are gradually blended with
the pixels outside of the selection.
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