Details of Selection Tool

Today, I discovered many way to using selection tools.

• The Marquee Tool

You can drag to draw a selection border around the image that you needed by using Elliptical Marquee tool. If you intend to reposition the selection border while you're drawing it, just hold the spacebar and drag the selection border into a new position. When you want to move the selection border after it's created, click anywhere inside the border and drag.

• The Lasso Tool

The Magnetic Lasso tool makes free-form selections even easier. It works best when you have a clearly defined edge, such like clock. This tool places anchors while you drag. At first time, you may feel difficulty to control it. After trying, I learnt that can remove anchors while dragging by pressing the Delete key, and to click the starting anchor point (or double-click) to finish the selection border. If you’ like to move the selected image that can be done by the Move tool (the one located on the right side of the Marquee Tool).

• The Magic Wand

We can select well-defined shape image from the photo, and change the background. First, I’ll select the image using the Magic Wand tool, and then click anywhere in the background. The background is surrounded by a marquee and is now editable. Now you can try to design the better background without touch the whole image.

On another hand, we also can redesign the image but not the background. Take the New Selection by the Magic tool, next click Select and choose Inverse. Then you'll see the selection border change to only the image inside of the photo. Following, we could make any designs without disturbing the background of the image.

Isn’t it interesting? I love photoshop!