'I would love to travel the world.

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would for unreal situations

The word would is used for unreal or imagined situations: 'I would love to visit New York.' 'She would like to be professional footballer.' 'We would go, but we are too busy.'

would as a past tense

would and wouldn't are the past tense of will and won't. Let's look at an example of this using direct and reported speech: Andrew: 'I will be late.' (direct speech) 'Andrew said that he would be late.' (reported speech)

would in conditional sentences

Would is used again for unreal or hypothetical situations in the 2nd and 3rd conditionals: 2nd Conditional: 'If I won the lottery, I would travel the world.' 3rd Conditional: 'If I had worked harder, I would have passed the test.'

would not as 'to refuse'

Wouldn't (would not) is used to show that someone refused to do something: 'I asked him if I could borrow his car, but he wouldn't lend it to me.'

would for past actions

Would can be used to talk about actions that repeated in the past. It is used in the same context as used to: 'When I was young I would do my homework every evening.' 'In the summer we would always go camping.

Would for Unreal, Impossible or Hypothetical Situations We probably see this most often in conditional sentences where we want to talk about a situation that is either not real or not likely to occur now or in the future. To do this we use a past tense of the verb in the if-clause and would + infinitive in the main clause. Have a look at these examples:

If I knew how to speak French, I would visit France. If she travelled by train, she would arrive this afternoon.

Contracting Would Dont forget that you can contract would and that you will often see it as:

Id like to visit her. (= I would like to visit her). Theyd swim more often. (= They would swim more often)

Would Like: Expressing a Desire for Something OK.. that covers would when we are talking about hypothetical situations but what if I say:

Id like a cup of tea, please. (= I would like ) Shed like a Tomato Salad. (= She would like )

Here, would is used as an auxiliary for the verb to like and takes on a special function of expressing desire for something. Notice that you cannot use could in this way. Would Have to talk about something in the past that did not happen Now, if we want to talk about something in the past that did not happen, we use had + past participle in the if clause and would have in the main clause. Look at these examples:

If Simon had taken his passport, he wouldnt have had a problem buying his ticket. If Jenny and Max had remembered Marys birthday, she wouldnt have been angry. If I had lived in Australia I would have learned how to surf.

Hope your staying with this Mahesh - its a long posting as it has to cover quite a bit of territory so that you can really see where the differences are! Now, lets look at could. Could: Permission, requesting and expressing ability We can use could to ask for permission, to express a possibility, make a request or express an ability to do something. Look at these examples:

Could I borrow your car this evening? Mine is being repaired. You could take the train. Then you wont have any problems parking. Yes, I could but I dont know where the train station is. Jonas could play the violin very well by the age of five.

Could Have to talk about hypothetical actions in the past that did not happen. Until now I think the distinct usages of would and could have been pretty clear but here, with could have Im afraid we are moving into an area where could have and would have are very similar! Like would have, (and should have which we are not covering in this posting), could have can be used to talk about past hypothetical actions - things we did not do or other did not do or didnt succeed in doing. For example:

I could have gone to university if I had had better results at school. I would have gone to university if I had had better results at school.

Now, in terms of meaning we are going to have to dig deep to find a distinction between the two but in the first example, could have expresses an ability to have done something if the condition (getting better results at school) had been met. Would have expresses a clear intention to have done something if the condition had been met - that is not just the ability to do it but also the intention to do it. Complicated I know but if you think through the examples I hope you will notice the difference.

If you right-click on the Lasso Tool icon, in Tool Menu, you will get all the variations of the tool. The one I want to mention is the Magnetic Lasso Tool,(when the fly-out menu appears, simply left-click on Magnetic Lasso Tool). This tool takes a bit of getting used to, but you can cut out what you want pretty cleanly! With your image out in your workspace, place the tool's tip,(it looks like a upside down wire hanger, with a horseshoe shaped magnet on top), on the edge of your image you wish to cut out of the background. Left-click once. Then slowly,(not too slow, and not too fast, you can speed up a little, as you learn the feel, you'll see!), go around the outside edge of your image. You'll see as you go along that little black empty squares appear, as well as a line. the squares 'frame' will change color as you go along, to a color that you can see better,(for example, black square frame on white edge, blue on a yellow, red on green, etc.). These 'squares' are Magnetic Anchor Points. When you go all the way around your image to cut out, these anchor points will follow. It's a pretty 'intuitive' tool, however there are so many variables for the Mag. Tool to follow, that sometimes it will 'grab' a darker color, or brighter color, close to it. If it should stray away from the edge you desire, simply press the Backspace key, or the Delete key. Each time you press either key, it delete's an anchor point. However, it's best to bring the tool along, to the anchor point/s, you are deleting, before clicking Backspace/Delete key, as if you're too far away from the anchor point you want to delete, it will make another anchor point. This explanation will make no sense, until you've used the tool, then you'll see what I mean! When you get good with the tool, you can magnify,(Zoom In Tool, in Zoom Tool's, looks like a magnifying glass, with a + sign in it), your image, and get REAL close to the edge you want! There's another trick you'll learn by doing on this! You may want to keep the image, at a focal percent that you can see the whole image, until you have gotten the feel down more. When you have 'circled' the whole image that you want to cut out, you will be back to the first anchor point you made. A small 'empty' circle,(or 'hollow'), will appear. Left-click once, and the 'Marching Ants' will now encircle your image,(if you don't see this 'hollow' circle, or can't quite get it right at first, simply press the Enter key). Now you can put your cut-out image on a new background to save it. To do this, go up to EDIT, in the top header, and click on it. In the Drop-down menu, click on Copy. Now go back up to the top header again, and to the left, click on FILE. In the Drop-down menu, click on NEW, (This will give you a new canvas to save your cut-out image. You can use the Mag Tool to copy it, as you just did here, after you save it to a new 'canvas', and Paste it into any background you wish!), you will now see a pop-out window that has Width, and Height listed in Pixels. Let's just concern ourselves with this for now. There will be pixels already listed in these 'boxes'. This will just make a new 'canvas' that your cut-out image, barely fits in,( wall-to-wall!) I always go to the end of the pixels listed with my mouse cursor, and left-click once, then use the backspace key to delete these preset numbers, and type in numbers to increase the Width size, and the Height size by 100 to 200 pixels. (Makes it easier to use the Mag Tool, later!) The 'canvas' color, will be what your Background Box is. Should you desire a different background color, you have to change it, before clicking on New, and making a new canvas. Click on Background Box, to bring Color Picker Chart up, to change it,(Foreground, and Background Color Boxes', are on the bottom of your Tool Menu. They look like squares, one on top of the others, corner. 'Hover' your mouse cursor over the tools in Tool Menu for a second, and the names will appear. These will say, 'Set foreground color',(one in front, 'natch!), and 'Set background color') Now click on OK.

Go back up to the top header, click on EDIT again, and down to PASTE this time. Your cut-out image will be on the new canvas. Go up to Layer in top menu, click, and down to Flatten Image, click. If you want the edges even cleaner, go to the Foreground/Background boxes, and click the curved arrow to change the background color to the Foreground. This is what your Brush Tool uses. Click on Brush Tool, and click on the Empty Square,(Maximize), on the top of your image frame in your workspace, to get rid of the frame, (In-between the MInimize,(-), sign, and the RED X). , if you haven't already done so. Zoom In on your cut-out image, and use the Brush Tool along the edges,(Hard Brush, 100% Opacity, 100% Flow), to go along the edges. Don't Forget to go up to File, and down to Save As, and give it a name! Once you get familiar with the Magnetic Lasso Tool, and use it some,(experiment!), you'll probably never want to use the Lasso Tool again, except for a fast easy copy, to compare sizes, when transferring a cut-out image to a different background. It really is easy to use, I just go into too much detail! LOL! EDIT: By the way, the Magic Wand Tool is in Photoshop 7, don't know about CS, and CS2, or the previous versions. I fergit!