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Advanced Editing:
Our second step is going to be to delete all the white space around the sun and letters. The reason we'll be doing this, despite it seeming like there's nothing there, is because there is something there: the color white. We're going to delete the white so that NO colors are there, which will allow us to place things BEHIND the Rutgers logo in our banner, and still be able to see anything.

Select the Magic Wand tool, and click an area of the white space in your image. It should select with a circling dotted line. Press the "Delete" key on your keyboard to delete this white space. Because you've moved your "Rutgers" image, there may be additional white space on the right side of the canvas that's not immediately selected. Be sure to get this area, as well. The last place to delete white from will be within the "g" and "e" of "Rutgers." You'll know you've deleted white space by seeing the checkerboard background of Photoshop's canvas.

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