Adobe Photoshop CS5 Classroom in a Book: The official training workbook from Adobe Systems

3. Working with Selections

Lesson overview

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

• Make specific areas of an image active using selection 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 area using the arrow keys.

• Add to and subtract from a selection.

• Rotate a selection.

• Use multiple selection tools to make a complex selection.

• Erase pixels within a selection.

This lesson will take about an hour to complete. Copy the Lesson03 folder onto your hard drive if you haven’t already done so. As you work on this ...