Chapter 1: Making Selections
In This Chapter
Creating selections with the Marquee tools
Roping your selections with the Lasso tools
Selecting pixels with the Magic Wand tool
Choosing with the Selection Brush
Using the Quick Selection tool to save time
Cropping and transforming with the Recompose tool
Sometimes you get lucky, and what you capture in the camera’s viewfinder is exactly what you want to edit, print, or share online. But at other times, you may want to work with only a portion of that image. Maybe you just need to adjust the contrast in a certain area, or you want to combine part of one image with another. In these instances, you have to make a selection before you can go on to do the real editing work.
Being able to make accurate selections is a valuable skill. Fortunately, Elements offers an assortment of tools for making selections. In this chapter, we give you the ...
