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Creating and Working with Selections
There are several selection tools available within Photoshop each designed for a specific purpose. The simplest and the most commonly tool being the Marquee tools.
To make a Simple selection click and hold down the mouse button and drag over the image with the mouse to make the selection. All the pixels inside the dragged area will be selected.
Invert a selection
To alter the entire image except for the selected area the inverse command swaps the selected and unselected areas. Choose Select/inverse to swap the selected areas.
