1.Click on the Edit in Quick Mask Mode button.

2.Make sure the colors that you are using are black and white, then click on the Brush tool.

4. Using the brush, make the whole subject red. The quick mask tool uses that opaque color red as a default.

5. Then click on the Edit in Standard Mode button and you should see that it makes a selection. Go to the select menu and click on Inverse. (Select>Inverse) which will then select only what you painted red.
6. Go to the Layer menu and select Layer via Copy. (Layer>Layer via Copy).

An Italian company has created an initiative whereby inmates of a jail will produce eco-friendly ice-cream using local produce.

A blog that is based both on personal philosophies and on the writings of people such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau:

http://www.natureslead.com/

This is an excellent talk, given by Wade Davis, about cultures at the far edges of the world, and the alarming rates at which they are disappearing:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/69

Here is a quick way to straighten a wonky image in Photoshop:

1. Select the “Measure Tool” (in the eyedropper group)

2. Draw a line of a straight edge on your image. Use a horizon, wall etc.

3. Select >Image>Rotate>Arbitrary and the angle will have been filled in based on the previous line you drew.

4. Hit ok and Photoshop will adjust the image. Now crop.