This document is a tutorial that teaches the basics of selections in Photoshop, including how to use the Magic Wand tool to select and modify parts of an image. It instructs the user to download an image file, open it in Photoshop, use selections tools to remove parts of the sky and background around a sunflower, and then create a blog post discussing the process.

1. Selections Tutorial #1 Magnetic Lasso

2. Introduction In this tutorial you will learn the basics of creating and modifying a selection with the Magic Wand Tool. You will also work with layers and use the Gradient Tool to apply a new background.

3. What are selections? Selections are ways of limiting changes to an image to a specific area. Photoshop has several tools for creating selections

4. Getting started If you haven’t already done so, download the Sunflower01.jpg document from the blog. Open the image Sunflower01.jpg in Photoshop.

26. Choose File>Save or use Control-S. Remember, the first thing you did in this tutorial was to save as a .psd (Photoshop Document), so all you have to do is Save once in a while to preserve your work.

27. That method worked pretty good to select and delete just the sky. But what if we want to get rid of everything except the flower?

37. Switch to the Layer containing the other version

39. Create a new blog post using the category Multimedia and insert both images in the post. Write at least five sentences about your process and the results.