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To begin, open Photoshop CS by clicking the desk top icon, or by using the start menu.

2.

Press Ctrl + Shift + O to open the Photoshop CS file browser. Make sure that the images in the Photoshop Sample folder are visible as thumbnails in the browser.

3.

Next, double click on the Palm Tree image to open it, and then close your browser. Your Photoshop screen should look now something like this.

4.

Select the Rectangular Marquee tool from the toolbar and create a selection that contains much of the tree in a square as shown.

The next step is to right click on the image, and choose the Transform Selection option from the menu. When you see the box with the move handles surrounding your selection, right click the image again to reveal the transformation options, and click the Skew option.

5.

Next, drag the top move handle about a centimetre to the right, and drag the bottom move handle about a centimetre to the left. Your selection should now be skewed on an angle like this.

Next, click the check mark button in the options bar to commit to the selection. The move handles should disappear and you will be left with a skewed selection.

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Now, right click on the image, and select Feather from the menu options.

In the Feather Selection dialog box, enter 18 in the Feather Radius field and click the OK button.

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Next, right click on the image, and choose Select Inverse from the menu. You will now see a selection border around the outside of the image indicating that the selection has been inverted.

The inner skewed selection has been feathered, meaning the edges have been softened and faded. You cannot see this however, because the rest of the image, outside the inner selection, is still present and is hiding the feathering effect. By inverting the selection, you have selected the rest of the image, which you will now remove.

The next step is to press the Delete key (or Backspace key), to show your feathered selection.

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When you see the new image, click your mouse on it once to remove the selection borders. Your image should now look like the following.

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Press the Shift + Ctrl + S keys to invoke the Save As dialog box.

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In the Save As dialog box, browse to your Practice folder, enter Practice8 as a file name, and choose TIFF as a file format (Tiff should be selected by default).

Click the Save button to save your new image. If the Tiff options box appears, look under the heading labelled Byte Order, and select the IBM PC radio button, (if you work with a Mac, leave this setting on Macintosh) and click the OK button. If you work on an IBM style PC, setting the byte order to PC may help your image load faster.

 Finally, press Ctrl + Q to exit Photoshop CS.