The Enthusiast's Guide to Photoshop

29. ADDING AND REMOVING PORTIONS OF A SELECTION

IMAGINE YOU’VE SPENT a lot of time making a selection and then realize you forgot a portion of it, or that you’ve selected too much of something and you need to modify it. Well, you don’t need to deselect (Mac: Command+D; PC: Control+D) everything. Instead, you can use the opportunity to refine your selections by adding to or subtracting from existing selections. It’s a pretty simple process, but it is very far reaching in terms of cleaning up specific areas.

Let’s take it right from the top. In Figure 29.1, I’ve made a selection using the Rectangular Marquee tool. In the tool options bar, there ...