Hold the Alt or Option key to create a shape starting in the center. By default, you drag the shape from a corner. Hold the Shift key when dragging to create a square or a circle. The selection appears when you release it. Choose the marquee you want to use, click on your image and drag the shape to size. You can choose a rectangular marquee tool, an elliptical marquee tool, or two single line shapes. The Marquee tools let you drag a shape over an area to select it. It can be a bit confusing because since it does not look like anything changed. This selects everything outside the marching ants. Go to the Select drop-down menu and choose Select > Inverse (Shift + Ctrl or ⌘I). By default, the selected area is within the line of marching ants. This is a dashed line that appears to move. In Photoshop, a selected area is bordered by ‘marching ants’. Select All is a useful tool (Ctrl or ⌘A), as is the Deselect command (Shift + Ctrl or ⌘D). Others modify selection tools found in the toolbar. Photoshop also has a Select drop-down menu. The Select and Mask button will create a masking layer using your selection (Option + Ctrl or ⌘R). Clicking the anti-aliasing box smooths the edges. Options also include settings for thickening or feathering of the border. The fourth, overlapping squares, keeps only the area shared by the new and previous selections. You can also subtract by holding the option key and making a new selection. The third, a filled and an empty square, subtracts the new selection from the previous. The second, overlapping squares, adds to previous selections.
The first, a square, draws a new selection each time. Options often include a set of icons describing how new selections will interact with existing ones. When you choose a selection tool, more options appear across the top of the workspace. Many of the selection tools in Photoshop are on the toolbar nested with similar tools.
The four shapes found to the left of the same option bar allow you to adjust your selection but after you've used the first option (New Selection) Photoshop will automatically select the second (Add To Selection) as you'll want to keep adding parts of the image until all you want selected has running ants around it.Buy from Unavailable Exploring Selection Tools in Photoshop Leave it unticked and it will just make the selection on the layer you have selected. Untick Contiguous and both shapes now become part of the selection when we click on the left shape.Īnti-alias helps smooth out the selection and by ticking Sample All Layers you are telling Photoshop you want it to include all of the layers in your document within the selection. We want to select both black areas so we select the Magic Wand tool and click on the one on the left but as Contiguous is ticked, Photoshop only selects the shape on the left as the white pixels in the centre are stopping the right black shape becoming part of the selection. There are two black sections separated by a white line. To explain this, take a look at our shape. (Tolerance adjusted)Ĭontiguous is automatically selected by Photoshop but this option stops any pixels that fall into the tolerance range you've chosen getting selected if they have a pixel in between them that doesn't fall in to the range. So if you type 100 Photoshop will select any pixels which are up to 100 shades lighter and down to pixels which are 100 shades darker.Ībove: 'Broken' selection before any adjustments made.Ībove: The same image with the selection complete. The tolerance tells Photoshop how many pixels it needs to select that are the same colour as what you have clicked on and the shades which are darker or lighter by whatever number you've typed in the Tolerance box.
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