© 2001 – All Rights Reserved – Page 1 Selections Selections

© 2001 – All Rights Reserved – Page 2 If life is like a box of chocolates… Raster images are like a box of M&Ms The goal of selection tools in Photoshop is to “corral” the M&Ms (pixels) and create or edit your artwork

© 2001 – All Rights Reserved – Page 3 Selections enable you to… Selections enable you to… Create crisp, hard-edged graphics Create rectilinear objects Create elliptical and circular objects Specify portions of an image for editing Remove offending backgrounds Create masks

© 2001 – All Rights Reserved – Page 4 Selections also let you… Selections also let you… Move part of an image Transform (rotate) part of an image Flip or mirror part of an image Do a free transformation Fill an area with color Paste an image into a selection Duplicate an area of an image

© 2001 – All Rights Reserved – Page 5 The Marquee Tools The Marquee Tools Create selection lines –a.k.a. “marquee lines” –a.k.a. “marching ants” Rectangular Marquee Elliptical Marquee Single Row Marquee Single Column Marquee Crop Tool

© 2001 – All Rights Reserved – Page 6 Rectangular Marquee Rectangular Marquee Draw diagonal corners for a rectangle Constrain with SHIFT to draw a square Try the Feather Option

© 2001 – All Rights Reserved – Page 7 Elliptical Marquee Draw diagonal corners to create an ellipse Constrain with SHIFT for a circle Use ALT to draw from the center out Check Anti-aliased box for smooth edges

© 2001 – All Rights Reserved – Page 8 Single Row/Column Marquees Single Row/Column Marquees One pixel-high row across image, or One pixel-wide column from top to bottom Useful for drawing thin lines Feather option available

© 2001 – All Rights Reserved – Page 9 Boolean Selections Boolean Selections oHolding SHIFT will add a new selection to an existing one oHolding ALT will subtract a new selection from an existing one oALT+SHIFT will create a Boolean intersection Try the Feather Option

© 2001 – All Rights Reserved – Page 10 The Crop Tool Use like cropping ells on a photograph Draw using diagonal corners, upper left to lower right Permanently reduces both image size and canvas size

© 2001 – All Rights Reserved – Page 11 The Lasso Tools The Lasso Tools The Lasso The Polygonal Lasso The Magnetic Lasso

© 2001 – All Rights Reserved – Page 12 The Lasso Tools Create free-form selections The Lasso Tool –Draw a free-form shape by dragging –Close by connecting end with beginning The Polygonal Lasso –Draw a polygon by clicking –Close by double-clicking The Magnetic Lasso –A “sticky” lasso that attaches itself to color edges

© 2001 – All Rights Reserved – Page 13 The Magic Wand Tool The Magic Wand Tool Useful for selecting areas of continuous-tone images like photos Works on “adjacent pixel” principle like the Paint Can tool The Tolerance setting will make it more or less sensitive

© 2001 – All Rights Reserved – Page 14 Selections Selections