September 2006
Beginner
574 pages
24h 23m
English
Content preview from Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual
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Chapter 5: Making Selections 113
Selecting Rectangular
and Elliptical Areas
NOTE If you’re planning on copying an image to another program, like Microsoft Word or
PowerPoint, make sure you’ve got Export Clipboard turned on in Edit
➝ Preferences ➝ General.
• Deselect Everything (Select ➝ Deselect, Escape, or Ctrl+D) removes any cur-
rent selection. Remember the keystroke combination because it’s one you’ll
probably use over and over again in Elements.
• Reselect (Select ➝ Reselect or Shift+Ctrl+D) tells Elements to reactivate the
selection you just canceled. Use Reselect if you realize you still need a selection
you just got rid of. Or you can just press Ctrl+Z to back up a step.
• Hide a Selection (Ctrl+H) keeps your selection active while hiding its outline.
Sometimes the marching ants around a selection make it hard to see what
you’re doing, or they can be distracting. To see the ants again, press Ctrl+H a
second time.
TIP It’s easy to forget you have a selection sometimes. When a tool acts goofy or won’t do any-
thing, start your troubleshooting by pressing Ctrl+H to be sure you don’t have a hidden selection
you forgot about.
Selecting Rectangular and Elliptical Areas
Selecting your whole picture is all well and good, but many times your reason for
making a selection is precisely because you don’t want to make changes to the
whole image. How do you select just part of the picture?
Well, the easiest ...
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