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CHAPTER 7
Selecting
Selecting pixels
You can select pixels in an image by dragging
with the marquee tools, lasso tools, selection
brush tool, or by targeting areas with the magic
wand tool. Making a new selection replaces the
existing one, unless you’re using the selection
brush tool, which adds to selections. You can also
invert selections and expand or reduce the area of
a selection.
Using the Select menu
You can use commands in the Select menu to
select the entire layer, deselect everything, or to
reselect an area you just deselected.
To select all pixels on a layer:
1 Select the layer in the Layers palette.
2 Choose Select > All.
To deselect selections:
Do one of the following:
• Choose Select > Deselect.
• If you are using the rectangular marquee, ellip-
tical marquee, or lasso tool, click anywhere in
the image outside the selected area.
To reselect the most recent selection:
Choose Select > Reselect.
Yo u can also choose selection commands from a
context menu while using the marquee, lasso,
or magic wand tools. To access this menu, right-click
(Windows) or Ctrl+click (Mac OS) in the image
window.
Showing or hiding selection borders
Selections are marked by a border of moving
dashes. You can show or hide selection borders in
your image.
To hide selection borders or show hidden selection
borders:
Choose View > Selection.
Making rectangular or elliptical selections
with the marquee tools
The marquee tools draw rectangular and elliptical
selection borders.
To use the marquee tools:
1 Select a marquee tool in the toolbar:
• Rectangular marquee to make a rectangular
selection.
• Elliptical marquee to make an elliptical
selection.
2 In the options bar, specify whether to create a
new selection , add to a selection , subtract
from a selection , or select an area intersected by
other selections .
3 To soften the selection border so that it blends
into the area outside the selection, enter a Feather
value in the options bar. (For more information on
feathering selections, see “Softening the edges of a
selection” on page 121.)
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