5. Making Selections

In This Chapter

About the Selection Tools 88

Using the Marquee Tools 91

Selecting Areas Using the Lasso Tools 93

Making Selections by Color 96

Using the Selection Brush Tool 100

Adjusting Selections 103

Softening the Edges of a Selection 106

Modifying Selection Borders 108

Photoshop Elements offers many sophisticated options for enhancing and retouching your image. Those options include colors, filters, resizing tools, vignettes, and all sorts of special effects. But before you can start tinkering, you need to learn how to make selections. Once you select a specific area of an image, you can change its color, copy and paste it into another image, or change its size and rotation.

You can also use selections to create ...

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