Working with Selections

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ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 5.0
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Working with Selections
Learning how to select areas of an
image is of primary importance when
working with Adobe?Photoshop?-
you must first select what you want to
affect. Once you’ve made a selection,
only the area within a selection can be
edited; areas outside the selection are
protected from change.WORKING WITH SELECTIONS
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In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:
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Use the marquee, lasso, and magic wand tools to select parts of an image in various ways.
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Reposition a selection marquee.
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Deselect a selection.
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Move and duplicate a selection.
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Constrain the movement of a selection.
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Adjust a selection with the arrow keys.
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Add to and subtract from selections.
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Rotate, scale, and transform a selection.
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Combine selection tools.
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Crop an image.
Tool overview
In Adobe Photoshop, you can make selections based on size, shape, and color using four basic sets
of tools-the marquee, lasso, magic wand, and pen tools. In addition, you can use a fifth tool, the
move tool, to reposition the selections you create.
Note:
In this lesson, you will use just the marquee, lasso, magic wand, and move tools; for more information
on the pen tools, see Chapter 7, “Selecting,” in the
Adobe Photoshop User Guide
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A.
Marquee Tool
B.
Move Tool
C.
Lasso Tool
D.
Magic Wand Tool
The marquee and lasso tool icons contain hidden tools, which you can select by holding down the
mouse button…