Selections and Selection Tools
Selections are depicted by animated dashed lines that appear around the selected portion of an image. You can carry out the editing or adjustments in the selected areas while keeping the unselected portions unaffected.
Tina wants to improve on certain portions and the images in the card while keeping the unselected portions from overspray. She uses the selection tools.
By default all selections have "hard" edges. For a softer edged selection you can use feathering. There are two types, in which you can apply feathering,
- Select a selection tool and the options bar will allow you to enter a feather radius. This will apply to all future selections so be careful before making a selection.
- You can feather an existing selection by choosing Select > Feather and then entering a feather radius
Selection Tools
There are several selection tools available within Photoshop with each tool designed for a specific selection task. Let us see what these are,
Marquee Tools -the basic, most commonly used and the simplest of the tools
- Rectangular. Creates a rectangular selection.
- Elliptical. Creates elliptical selections.
- Single row. Creates a single pixel high horizontal selection.
- Single Column. Creates a single pixel wide vertical selection.
