The document discusses the selection tools in Adobe Photoshop CS6. It describes several tools for making selections including the marquee, lasso, quick selection tool, and magic wand. It explains how to move, crop, transform and modify selections. Common selection techniques are covered such as selecting all or inverting a selection.

2. THE SELECTION
TOOLS

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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

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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:

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1. On the Menu Bar, click Select > All.
To select the whole image:

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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.

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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

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MARQUEE OPTIONS BAR
Shows the command options for the tool that you
have selected.

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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

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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

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ICON NAME FUNCTION
Feather Blurs the edges of the selection
Anti-alias Smoothens the hard edges of a selection
Style
Provides three style options that you can
choose from: Normal, Fixed, Aspect Ratio
and Fixed size
Refine Edges Refines or modifies the selection edges

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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

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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.

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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.

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

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Deselect a Selection
If you want to deselect a
selection you made, on
the Menu Bar, click Select
> Deselect .

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Inverting a Selection
You can invert a selection to
deselect what is currently
selected and select other
parts of the image.

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Inverting a Selection
Click Select >
Inverse.
Click Select >
Inverse.

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

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