Chapter 5. Working with Selections
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Learning how to select areas of an image is of primary importance—you must first select what you want to affect. Once you’ve made a selection, only the area within the selection can be edited. Areas outside the selection are protected from change.
Lesson overview
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:
Make specific areas of an image active using various tools.
Reposition a selection marquee.
Move and duplicate the contents of a selection.
Use keyboard-mouse combinations that save time and hand motions.
Deselect a selection.
Constrain the movement of a selected area.
Adjust the position of a selected ...
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