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Take care to continue holding the Shift key while making additional If you press and hold the Shift key after you’ve made yourįirst selection and before you click again, you can make additional Try to get a senseįor how marquees appear. While the cursor is over the canvas, click and hold the mouse button, andĮxperiment with dragging out an elliptical marquee. Set the dimensions to the Photoshop default.Īs you move the tool over the canvas, the cursor appears as a "The Basics," if you can’t remember how). To experiment with its many uses, first create a new file (go back to Hour 1, The icon willĬhange accordingly on the Tool Options bar. Marquee tool works the same way as the Rectangular Marquee tool. Single Row or Single Column Marquee, too.Īssuming that the Rectangular Marquee is the currently selected tool, you canĪlso press Shift+M to switch back and forth between the two. Menu appears, choose the Elliptical Marquee. Marquee, click and hold the Rectangular Marquee in the toolbox. It or press the letter M on your keyboard. To select the Rectangular Marquee, just click The Marquee tools, both Rectangular and Elliptical, are found in the Selection tools are located at the top of the toolbox. What’s on them.) In the lower-right corner, you can also see the Slice (The pop-up menus have been shifted so that you can see Photoshop’s Selection tools give you the power to select the In a particular way, such as punching a shape out of an image or selecting all You haveĭifferent kinds of Selection tools because you sometimes need to make selections Selection tools: Marquee tools, Lasso tools, or the Magic Wand. There are several ways to select a piece of a picture.

Selections are just what they seem to beportions of To do this, you have to select a part of the picture on which

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