Adobe PhotoshopCh 5 Notes

Selecting Image Content

Marquee Tool

Use the Marquee Tool to make selections that are regular in shape

• Rectangles

• Squares

• Ovals

• Circles

Right click on the Marquee Tool to access

• Rectangular Marquee Tool –rectangular selection

• Elliptical Marquee Tool – for a round or elliptical selection

• Single Column or Single Row Marquee Tool – to select a one-pixel wide area in the image. You can cut, copy or paste the selection to use as a border in another image.

Lasso Tool

• For making selections that are not typical or symmetrical in shape. For selecting an irregular area.

Lasso Tool• Lasso - You can select an irregular area by dragging• Polygonal Lasso - You can select a polygon by clicking

to place the angles in an image that has a lot of angles or corners(you can use the Alt key while using either the Lasso tool or Polygonal Lasso tool to switch between freehand drawing and clicking to set corner pointsPress Delete while using any Lasso tool to remove the most recently drawn selection segment.)

• Magnetic Lasso - Get help selecting an irregular area by snapping to fastening points along the edge of a shape in an image.

Magic Wand Tool

• Use this tool if all the pixels in the area that you want to select are about the same color and adjoin one another in the image, you can use the Magic Wand tool to select the area by clicking.

Selecting Pixels with the Magic Wand

• Click on the Magic Wand Tool in the Photoshop toolbox

• Click on the New selection button on

the Options Bar, if needed

• Change other Settings on the Options Bar as needed.

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• Change the Tolerance text box entry

(between 0 and 255) to specify how much variation can occur

between the colors included in the selection.(a low entry results in a smaller selection zone composed of fewer like colors, and vice versa)

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• Leave the Anti-aliased check box checked. The tool will smooth the edges of the selection

• Leave the Contiguous check box checked. The tool will then select the matching colors on all layers in the picture.

• Click on the desired image color with the Magic Wand tool. The selection marquee will appear on the image.

Selecting by Color Range

• Works sort of like Magic Wand Tool(except that it lets you select all the pixels of the specified color in the image—not just adjoining or contiguous pixels.)

Steps for Selecting by Color Range

• Click on Color Range• The Color Range dialog box will open • Click on a Selection Type in the Select List• Drag Fuzzines slide to adjust the setting if

needed• Click on the Eyedropper Tool to select it• Click on the desired color in the picture. • Click OK

Deselecting a Selection

1. Click on Select

2. Click on Deselect