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Quick Selection Tool One of the easiest ways to make a selection. You simply paint an area of an image, and the tool automatically finds the edges. You can add or subtract areas of the selection until you have exactly the area you want. Auto Enhance When Auto Enhance is selected, the Quick Selection tool creates better quality selections, with edges that are truer to the object. The selection process is a little slower than using the Quick Selection tool without Auto Enhance, but the results are superior. Brainpower Read More Previous Play Next Rewind 10 seconds Move forward 10 seconds Unmute 0:00 / 0:00 Full screen How do you deliberately deselect a selection? You can choose Select > Deselect, press Ctrl+D (Windows) or Command+D (Mac OS), or click outside the selection with any selection tool to start a different selection. Elliptical Marquee tool Lets you select ovals or perfect circles. What happens when making selections with the Spacebar? Use the spacebar as needed to reposition your selections. By holding down the mouse button, press the spacebar and continue to drag the selection. Instead of resizing the selection, now you're moving it. Zoom Tool Shortcut Press Z to activate the zoom tool. Fit on Screen Shortcut You can see all of the objects in the image window by pressing Command+0 or Crtl+0. You can also double-click the hand tool icon. Cutting Selected Pixels During an image selection, and with the Elliptical Marquee tool (for example) selected in the Tools panel, press Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS), and move the pointer within the selection. The pointer icon now includes a pair of scissors to indicate that the selection will be cut from its current location. What happens with a selection when using the arrow keys? You can make minor adjustments to the position of selected pixels by using the arrow keys. You can nudge the selection in increments of either one pixel or ten pixels. When you hold down the Shift key, the selection moves ten pixels every time you press an arrow key. How to hide the edges of a selection temporarily? You can hide the edges of a selection temporarily without actually deselecting, and then display the selection border once you've completed the adjustments. Choose View > Show > Selection Edges or View > Extras. You can also press Command+H or Control+H Either command hides the selection border around the plate of shells. What type of selections is the Magic Wand tool most useful for? The Magic Wand tool selects all the pixels of a particular color or color range. It's most useful for selecting an area of similar colors surrounded by areas of very different colors. If a multicolored area that you want to select is set against a background of a different color, it can be much easier to select the background than the area itself. What does the tolerance option do to the Magic Wand tool? The Tolerance option sets the sensitivity of the Magic Wand tool. This value limits or extends the range of pixel similarity. The default tolerance value of 32 selects the color you click plus 32 lighter and 32 darker tones of that color. You may need to adjust the tolerance level up or down depending on the color ranges and variations in the image. What does anti-aliasing mean? Anti-aliasing smooths the jagged edges of a selection by softening the color transition between edge pixels and background pixels. Since only the edge pixels change, no detail is lost. Anti-aliasing is useful when cutting, copying, and pasting selections to create composite images. To use anti-aliasing, select a lasso tool, or the Elliptical Marquee or Magic Wand tool, and select Anti-alias in the options bar. To apply anti-aliasing, you must select the option before making the selection. Once a selection is made, you cannot add anti-aliasing to it. What does feathering mean? Feathering blurs edges by building a transition boundary between the selection and its surrounding pixels. This blurring can cause some loss of detail at the edge of the selection. You can define feathering for the marquee and lasso tools as you use them, or you can add feathering to an existing selection. To define a feathered edge for a selection tool, select any of the lasso or marquee tools. Enter a Feather value in the options bar. This value defines the width of the feathered edge and can range from 1 to 250 pixels. To define a feathered edge for an existing selection, choose Select > Modify > Feather. Enter a value for the Feather Radius, and click OK. What does the Refine Edge option do? To use the Refine Edge option, first make a selection, and then click Refine Edge in the options bar to open its dialog box. You can use the Refine Edge option to smooth the outline, feather it, or contract or expand it. Lasso Tool Shortcut Press L How do you switch between Lasso & Polygonal Lasso tools? Select the Lasso tool. Drag around the image tracing the shape as accurately as possible. Do not release the mouse button. Press the Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) key, and then release the mouse button so that the lasso pointer changes to the polygonal lasso shape. Do not release the Alt or Option key. Begin clicking along the image to place anchor points, following the contours of the shape. Be sure to hold down the Alt or Option key throughout this process. Hold down the mouse button as you release the Alt or Option key. The pointer again appears as the lasso icon. Click the starting point of the selection, and then release Alt or Option. The image is now entirely selected. Lasso Tool The lasso tool makes freehand selections. Polygonal Lasso Tool The polygonal lasso too makes straight-edge selections. Magnetic Lasso Tool You can use the Magnetic Lasso tool to make freehand selections of areas with high-contrast edges. When you draw with the Magnetic Lasso tool, the selection border automatically snaps to the edge between areas of contrast. You can also control the selection path by occasionally clicking the mouse to place anchor points in the selection border. How do you scale the elliptical or rectangular selections from a center point? Select the Elliptical Marquee tool (Image) in the Tools panel. Move the pointer to the approximate center of the object. Click and begin dragging. Then, without releasing the mouse button, press Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) as you continue dragging the selection to the outer edge of the object. The selection is centered over its starting point. When you have the entire object selected, release the mouse button first, and then release Alt or Option (and the Shift key if you used it). How can you make a perfect circle or square? To create a perfect circle, press Shift as you drag. Hold down Shift while dragging the Rectangular Marquee tool to select a perfect square. How do you duplicate a selection? With the Move tool selected, press Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) as you position the pointer inside the object selection. The pointer changes, displaying the usual black arrow and an additional white arrow, which indicates that a duplicate will be made when you move the selection. Continue holding down the Alt or Option key as you drag a duplicate of the image to another part of the canvas. Release the mouse button and the Alt or Option key. Pressing the Shift key as you move a selection constrains the movement horizontally or vertically in 45-degree increments. Copying selections: Copy "Copy" copies the selected area on the active layer. Copying selections: Copy Merged Copy Merged creates a merged copy of all the visible layers in the selected area. Copying selections: Paste Paste pastes a cut or copied selection into another part of the image or into another image as a new layer. Copying selections: Paste Into Paste Into pastes a cut or copied selection inside another selection in the same or a different image. The source selection is pasted onto a new layer, and the destination selection border is converted into a layer mask.