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I. MARQUEE TOOLS a.

Use this tool to make selections on your image in a rectangular shape. Holding the shift key while dragging your selection, restricts the shape to a square.

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Use to make selections in rounded shape. Holding the shift key while dragging will restricts the shape to a perfect circle.

THE RECTANGULAR AND ELLIPTICAL MARQUEE

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THE RECTANGULAR AND ELLIPTICAL MARQUEE OPTIONS

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A. New Selection If this option is selected, an

existing selection will be cleared first before creating a selection.

B. Add to selection If this option is selected, a new

selection will be added to the new selection.

THE RECTANGULAR AND ELLIPTICAL MARQUEE OPTIONS BAR

C. Subtract from selection The selection that you made

will be will be removed from the existing selection.

D. Intersect with selection This selection option will create

a selection in the intersection of two selections.

THE RECTANGULAR AND ELLIPTICAL MARQUEE OPTIONS BARE. Feather It is used to blur edges of a

selection. You can change the intensity of the feather effect by specifying the feather value from 0 -250 pixels at the textbox.

F. Anti-alias This option smoothen the hard

edges of the selection when selected. This option is available with the lasso tool, polygonal lasso, magnetic lasso, magic wand tool, and elliptical marquee tool.

THE RECTANGULAR AND ELLIPTICAL MARQUEE OPTIONS BARG. Style It provides three style options that you

can choose from in performing a selection. Normal This is the default option. It lets you to

freely create a selection by dragging the mouse over an image.

Fixed aspect ratio This style option is use to create a

proportional selection based on the specified width and height ratio.

THE RECTANGULAR AND ELLIPTICAL MARQUEE OPTIONS BAR Fixed size This style option is used to create a

fixed size selection based on the supplied width and height of the selection in pixel , inches or centimeter.

H. Refine edge button It activates the refine edge dialog

box which lets you define or modify the selection edges.

Refine Edge Dialog Box

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Refine Edge Dialog Box

a. Radius This option is used to increase the

size of the region around the selection boundary in which edge refinement is applied. Increase the radius to create a more exact selection boundary in areas with soft transitions or fine details, such as hair or blurred boundaries.

b. Contrast This section is used to sharpen the

soft selection edges.

Refine Edge Dialog Boxc. Smooth It removes rough areas around the

selectiond. Feather It softens the selection edges with a

uniform blur.e. Contract/ Expand It is used to shrink or expand the

selection boundary.f. Preview Options It present options in viewing the

selection in different background.

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Use to make a single row selection

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Use to make a single column selection

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II. Lasso tools a. Lasso tool

Used to make a free form selection by dragging the mouse around the area of the image to be selected.

b. Polygonal Lasso tool

Used to draw selections in whatever shape you would like .

c. Magnetic Lasso tool

Used to quickly select object or an area in the image which has contrasting edges. It automatically selects the edges by snapping the selected border to the edges of the object or the area in the image being selected.

Magnetic Lasso Options Bara. Width It specifies the direction width in pixels. The

width value ranges from 1- 256 pixels. This tool will only detect edges within the specified pixel distance from the mouse pointer.

b. Contrast It specifies the contrast value in order for the

magnetic lasso to adjust its sensitivity in detecting edges. The contrast value ranges from 1% to 100%. A large contrast value will result to detecting high contrast edges , while a small contrast value will detect low contrast edges

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Magnetic Lasso Options Bar

c. Frequency It specifies the rate of setting the

fastening points. The frequency value ranges from 0 – 100. A higher frequency value will attach the selection border to the edges more quickly . It also has so many fastening points.

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III.

Ideal in selecting a part of the image based on its color. This selection tool creates a selection based on the color of the pixels of the image area that is clicked.

Magic Wand Tool Options bar

Tolerance This option is used to adjust the color

range to be included in the selection. Tolerance value ranges from 0 – 255 pixels. The default tolerance value is 32 pixels. Setting a lower tolerance value will only select colors which are very similar to the color of the pixel that you click, while setting a higher tolerance value will select a wider range of color.

Magic Wand Tool Options bar

Contiguous When this option is selected, only

nearby areas with the same color as the clicked pixel will be selected. Otherwise, all areas of the image with the same color as the clicked pixel will be included in the selection.

Sample all layers If this is selected, the magic wand tool

will select colors based on the color data of the visible layers. Otherwise it will only select colors based on the color data of the active layer.

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Used to make selections by painting within the area of the image that you want to be selected. This tool is smarter and more precise than the magic wand tool.

The Quick Selection Options Bar

Brush This option lets you select the brush

size (diameter), hardness, and spacing of the quick selection tool brush tip. You can also increase the brush tip size by pressing the right bracket and decrease the brush tip size by pressing the left bracket .

The Quick Selection Options Bar

Auto- enhance It reduces the roughness of the

selection edges. It is similar to setting the smooth , contrast and radius options in the refine edge dialog box. Selecting this option automatically applies the edge refinement options available in the Refine Edge command as you paint the selection but the effect is more subtle compared to manually setting and applying the Refine Edge options.

The Quick Selection Options Bar

Sample all layers Creates a selection based on all

layers instead of just the currently selected layer.

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Crop Tool

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It crops the image to the size you have created. Any information that was outside the selection will be removed.

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Used mostly for building websites, or splitting up one image into smaller ones when saving out.

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Allows you to move selected things or layers around. Hold the shift key to limit the movements to either vertical/horizontal.

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