Photoshop CS3 for Screen Printers- P6: The toolbox is the heart of Photoshop CS3, and where you’ll find the tools you need to create your artwork and perform editing tasks. From the toolbox you can access the selection tools, shape tools, type tools, Crop tool, and eraser tools. These are basic tools that any screen printer or graphic artist needs. | 126 Part II Creating Artwork and Logos Tip Depending on what you re copying the system could seem to hang for a minute especially if you are running low on RAM or copying a large amount of data. Be patient Edit Paste and Edit Paste Into Pasting is done after a selection has been cut or copied to the clipboard. Pasting is putting what s in memory and stored on the clipboard into the active file. The Paste command pastes the selection into another part of the image or into a new image as a new layer. The Paste Into command pastes a selection into another part of the image or into a new image as a new layer and the destination s selection border is converted into a layer mask. You can then decide if you want to apply the mask or discard it. Understand that when a selection is cut or copied from a file of a specific resolution and then pasted into a file or image that is of another resolution the pasted selection will look a little out of scale. If you are cutting copying and pasting under these circumstances make sure you resize the image first so that the pasted image will fit appropriately into the new one. After completing the paste action choose Edit Purge Clipboard to remove the selection from the clipboard especially if the data or image pasted is quite large. Keeping an unnecessary amount of data stored on the clipboard when it isn t needed can slow down the computer and cause your next cut or copy to be placed on the virtual RAM portion of the hard drive. Retrieving information from the hard drive instead of RAM takes quite a bit longer and can cause unnecessary slowdowns. Tip Dragging a selection to a new file or image or another area of the same image can be done instead of using the Cut Copy and Paste commands. Dragging saves system resources since the clipboard isn t used in the move. 127 Chapter 7 Getting Creative Edit Clear The Clear command enables you to delete a selection without placing that selection on the clipboard. It s similar to the Cut .
