How to Select
Image Areas
Course of
Action: Create a New Document
To create a
New document;
1.
Choose File and click New
2.
In the New dialog box, specify the
desired settings
3.
The click OK.
Course of
Action: Make a Selection
To make a
selection using Rectangular
Marquee tool
1.
Open the document where you want to create a selection.
2.
On the Tools palette, select the Rectangular Marquee tool.
3.
Position the cross hair cursor at the location where you would like to short
the selection and drag to make a rectangular marquee selection.
4. If
necessary, continue hold down the mouse button and the spacebar to move a selection as you draw it.
Make a Selection
using Elliptical Marquee tool
1.
Click and hold the Rectangular Marquee tool
without releasing the mouse click and, from the flyout, select the Elliptical Marquee tool.
2.
Position the cross hair cursor at the location where you would like to start
the selection and drag to make an elliptical marquee selection
3.
If necessary, you can hold down the mouse button and the spacebar to move a selection as you draw it.
How to make a
freehand selection using Lasso
tool
1.
Select a lasso tool
2. a)
Click at the outer edge of the object or on the portion of the image to be
selected and drag to make a freehand selection; or
b)
Hold the Alt key and click at the
outer edges of the object to create a selection.
3.
Release the mouse button to end the selection at the same location you began.
Make a selection
based on a color using Quick Selection tool
1.
Click and hold the Magic Wand tool
and, from the flyout, select the Quick
Selection tool.
2.
Position the cross hair cursor at the location where you would like to start
the selection and drag to make selection. You can also click it once if the
background is a solid color, like (black, white, red etc).
3.
If necessary, choose Select and
click Deselect, or choose keyboard
shortcut Ctrl+D to remove the
selection.
Hint:
Deselection in Photoshop
Whenever
you want to remove a selection, you should always choose the Deselect command in the Select menu. Unlike with other graphic
application, you should not simply click in a blank space to deselect when
using Photoshop. Since the entire image is made up of individual pixels, there
is no empty or transparent space in a Photoshop image unless you add layers.
White space is a single-layer image is simply a large area of white pixels.
Confine Selections
Sometimes
it is vital that the selection area you create with the Rectangular or Elliptical
Marquee tools be a perfect square or circle. You can confine the marquee
tools to create squares or circles by holding down Shift while using the marquee tools.
Inverse Selection
When
you make selection using the selection tools, you can inverse the selection if
necessary. To inverse, click Select in
the menu bar and click Inverse. For keyboard shortcut key; press and hold Shift+Ctrl+I.
Tips:
Perhaps you are not
familiar with the Photoshop tools, but you want to try your hands to learn Photoshop
by yourself. To know the tools and their names, point the mouse pointer on the
tool in the Tools Palette, and it
will display the name of that tool.
