- Selections
- Marquee selections
- Elliptical Selections
- Lasso Tool
- Polygonal Lasso Tool
- Magnetic Lasso Tool
- Magic Wand
- Quick Selection
- Color Range
- Inverse
- Copy / Paste
- Layers Basics
Daily Inspirational Quote
"You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good."
- Jerry West
While working in Adobe Photoshop you'll want to do things such as making photo adjustments, adding elements, adjusting contrast, adjusting colors and much more. In order to let Photoshop know which elements of the photo you would like to work with we must first select the part of the image we want to work with. To do this Photoshop has a large range of selection tools to choose from.
Some of the selection tools are personal selecting tools meaning you physically drag out the areas that you would like to work with. These tools include the marquee, elipitical marquee, lasso, polygonal lasso and magnetic lasso tools. Each tool works a bit differently, but each requires that you select and drag the part of the image you would like to work with
Marquee Tool/Elliptical Marquee Tool
Lasso Polygonal/Magnetic Lasso Tool
Magnetic Lasso Tool
Magic Wand/Selection Tool/Color Range Magic Wand
Some selection tools are not based on the user's hand movements but rather the colors of the image. For instance, you can select all of the red areas of an image, or all of the blue areas. There are a few selection tools that allow this including the magic wand, selection tool and color range option.
Magic Wand
Color Range
Photoshop Layers
What makes Adobe Photoshop such a power photo-editing tool is the ability to separate your composition into layers. With layers you can separate different aspects of your composition to different layers. This allows your composition to be easily editable and managed. For instance you could quickly remove an element without affecting other elements in your composition.
Layers
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