When you choose the Adobe Photoshop Elements shape tool you can choose the required shape from the options in the control bar at the bottom of the screen.

If you want to put a shape of colour in the background in Adobe Photoshop Elements we need to choose the correct shape tool from the tool bar on the left hand side. You will now have your cutout image on its own layer in your new document. Next we are going to go back to our original image with the selection made and go to Edit>Copy, then over to the new blank document and go to Edit>Paste. Once you are happy with this selection in Adobe Photoshop Elements we are going to make a new document to copy this image in to by going to File>New.įrom this window you can make the document the correct size, you can choose inches, mm or cm etc whichever is more relevant, if you are going to print the document make sure the resolution is set to 300 pixels/inch to achieve the best quality print output from Adobe Photoshop Elements. Once you are all the way round the image back to near where you started you can double click the mouse and this will complete the selection in Adobe Photoshop Elements and you will see the selection running around your image. If the tool goes to an incorrect place you can press the backspace or delete key on your keyboard and it will step backwards one step, keep pressing the key until you get to a point you are happy with then move forward again. If it does not go exactly where you want it to go you can click the mouse and it will stick to wherever you have clicked.

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