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.

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This lesson will take about an hour to complete. ...

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