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Using Photoshop’s Selection Tools

Explore all the different ways to select pixels in Photoshop. In these articles you look at the marquee tools, the lasso tools, the Quick Selection tool, the Magic Wand tool, the Color Range command, the Quick Mask mode, and lots more besides.

Modifying Selections in Photoshop

31 October 2001 / 1 Comment

Once you’ve made your basic selection using one of Photoshop’s numerous selection tools, there are a lot of things you can do to play around with it. In this tutorial we’ll look at:

  • feathering
  • anti-aliasing
  • adding and subtracting
  • bordering
  • smoothing
  • expanding and contracting

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Working with Photoshop’s Quick Mask Mode

24 October 2001 / 2 Comments

Photoshop’s Quick Mask mode is a really versatile way to select things. Instead of creating marquees as you do with the other tools, you can “paint” the selection using any of Photoshop’s painting tools. You can even use the other selection tools on the Quick Mask, as if it was a regular image. This makes the Quick Mask mode a very powerful feature of Photoshop.

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Selecting with Photoshop’s Color Range Command

15 October 2001 / Leave a Comment

Photoshop’s Color Range command is great for selecting particular colours in your image — for example, all the reds, or all the greens. You can then work on these specific colours — turning them from green to red, for example, or removing particular colours from the image.

This command doesn’t work well for selecting particular areas of your image (such as a foreground object), as it has a tendency to only partially select pixels, and often selects unwanted parts of your image that are a similar colour. But it’s great for selecting colours to work on!

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Using Photoshop’s Quick Selection and Magic Wand Tools

10 October 2001 / Leave a Comment

In this tutorial you’ll look at two very quick and easy ways to make selections in Photoshop: The Quick Selection tool and the Magic Wand tool.

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Selecting with Photoshop’s Marquee and Lasso Tools

26 September 2001 / Leave a Comment

Selections are a great way to work on parts of your image independently, rather than manipulating the image as a whole.

Once you’ve selected a part of an image (e.g. a person’s head or other object), you can then manipulate this object separately from the rest of the image. This means you can cut the object out; add drop shadows; adjust the brightness/contrast; warp it; apply effects and filters easily – in fact, anything you like!

In this series of tutorials you’ll explore the various selection tools in Photoshop. On this page we start with the marquee and lasso tools.

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