Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 Classroom in a Book®

Chapter 4. Working with Selections

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.

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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 ...