eyeball tutorial help

There is probably a really simple answer for this, but i am completely stumped.

In the creating eyeballs tutorial, for step 6 it says and i quote

"Go back to your eye_top layer and Ctrl+Click to select it. While holding down your "Alt" key we are going to minus part of the selection. Minus the selection so you only have a small wedge left in the upper right corner. You create this wedge by holding down the "Alt" key and selecting every part of the eye "but" the part you want left."

I don't know how to do this minus part, i select the layer how it says to and hit alt and all it does is move the highlighted object (eg the eye)

http://volmistart.tripod.com/volmist-art/id14.html that is the image that I am trying to apply this technique to. The blue part is what I have tried to do so far. The eye is on seperate layers from the rest of the image and I have followed the tutorial word by word up till there.

If anyone could help me I would greatly appreciate it.


Also I know this is asking a little much, but would anyone happen to know of any good tutorials saying how to create realistic looking feathers, thanks again..

I am sorry if none of this makes sense as its pretty late while im writing this, and I just found this site.

As to your first question - I'm not exactly sure how the tutorial wants you to subtract some of the selection, but when using any of the marquee tools, holding ALT will make it so that anything selected will be subtracted from the previous selection. Either that, or if you hold down ALT as well as CTRL while clicking a thumbnail, it will subtact the layer as a selection. Try it.

tom

After you made the selection, hold down ALT and drag the Elliptical Marquee from bottom left to top right, so that it selects the area you want to deselect.

As for other tutorials, visit the Resources section of the forum.