Expand & Contract

Concept: The lesson is designed using Adobe Photoshop. We have used selections, different combination of image editing tools and filters for most of the effects. Photoshop comes up with lots of the options and scope for experiment is much more than you can imagine. We wish to encourage you to use different options and tools to get better output. The lessons and techniques described need to be followed as a guideline to achieve the effect.

1. Open Photoshop. Open Image to apply Expand & Contract commands.

2. Select the Magic Wand Tool and click on the white background area around the picture.

3. Select > Inverse

You will get following selection. Now let us apply Contract Command.

4. Select > Modify > Contract (Contract by 20 pixels)

5. Go back to the original selection and apply Expand Command.

6. Select > Modify > Expand (Expand by 7 pixels)