The Selection Tools

THE SELECTION TOOLS

Prepared by: Sef Cambaliza

Source: Adobe Photoshop CS6 (2013). Jemma Development Group

ICON NAME FUNCTION

Move Tool Moves the selection and layer

Marquee Tool Makes rectangular selection

Lasso Tool Makes free hand or snap to selection

Quick Selection Tool Makes you quickly paint a selection using a round brush

Crop Tool Crops the image



1. On the Tools Panel, click any of the selection tools available.

2. Click the area that you want to select.

To select a part of an image:



1. On the Menu Bar, click Select > All.

To select the whole image:



MOVE TOOL

1. On the Tools Panel, click Move Tool > click and drag your mouse to the object.

2. To resize the object you have moved to another image, press Ctrl + T (Transform)

and drag the image by the handles.



MARQUEE TOOLS

ICON NAME FUNCTION

Rectangular Marquee Tool Makes rectangular selection

Elliptical Marquee Tool Makes elliptical selection

Single Row Marquee Tool Makes one row selection

Single Column Marquee Tool Makes one column Selection



MARQUEE OPTIONS BAR

Shows the command options for the tool that you have selected.



ICON NAME FUNCTION

New Selection Clears previous selection and creates new selection

Add to Selection Creates new selection in addition to the existing selection

Subtract from Selection

Removes the selection from the existing selection

Intersect with Selection

Creates a new selection that intersects with the existing selection



THE LASSO TOOLS

ICON NAME FUNCTION

Lasso Tool Makes a freehand selection

Polygonal Lasso Tool Makes a straight line selection

Magnetic Lasso Tool Makes a selection which snaps to the edge of an object



ICON NAME FUNCTION

Feather Blurs the edges of the selection

Anti-alias Smoothens the hard edges of a selection

StyleProvides three style options that you can choose from: Normal, Fixed, Aspect Ratio and Fixed size

Refine Edges Refines or modifies the selection edges



SELECTION USING COLOR

ICON NAME FUNCTION

Quick Selection Tool Creates a closed marquee that you can adjust

Magic Wand Tool Selects an object using a color



CROP TOOL

1. On the Tools Panel, click Crop Tool.2. Click and drag the tool on the portion of the

image that you would like to show.3. Drag the corner handles to resize.

4. Click and drag the middle portion to moved the cropped area.

5. Press Enter key and the cropped image will be displayed.



Rotating a Selection

1. Select the image that you want to rotate.

2. Click Edit > Transform and select Flip Vertical.3. You can select any rotation angles listed in

the submenu.



Transforming a Selection

1. Edit > Transform.2. Select the kind of transformation you want to apply on the submenu.



Deselect a Selection

If you want to deselect a selection you made, on the Menu Bar, click

Select > Deselect .



Inverting a Selection

You can invert a selection to deselect what is

currently selected and select other parts of the

image.



Inverting a Selection

Click Select > Inverse.

Click Select > Inverse.



Deleting a Selection

Remove the selected part of your image by pressing the Delete key.

THANK YOU.THANK YOU.

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