December 2008
Beginner
800 pages
28h 55m
English
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Chapter 4. Selections: Choosing What to Edit
Life is all about making choices, and the time you spend in Photoshop is no exception. Perhaps the biggest decision you’ll make is which part of the image to edit. After all, your edits don’t have to affect the whole image. Using a variety of Photoshop tools, you can tell the program exactly which portion of the image you want to tinker with—right down to the pixel, if you so desire. This process is called making a selection.
As you’ll learn in this chapter, Photoshop has a bunch of tools that you can use to create selections based on shape, color, and other attributes. You can also draw selections by hand though that requires a bit of mouse prowess. True selection wisdom lies in learning which selection tool to start with, how to use the tools together, and how to fine-tune your selections quickly and efficiently. The following pages will help you reach selection enlightenment.
Selection Basics
What’s so great about selections, anyway? Lots. After you make a selection, you can do all kinds of neat things with it, like:
Fill it with color. Normally, the Edit → Fill command (Copying and Pasting Layers) floods an entire layer with color, but by creating a selection first, you can color only that area. For example, you can use the Fill command in conjunction with the Rectangular Marquee (one of the bread-and-butter selection tools you’ll learn about in this chapter) to create a colorful photo border (shown later in this chapter on Filling a ...
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