{"id":764,"date":"2014-11-20T06:22:46","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T03:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sweetmonia.com\/Sweet-Drawing-Blog\/?p=764"},"modified":"2019-02-24T15:41:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T12:41:45","slug":"photoshop-selection-tools-in-depth-tutorial-with-detailed-examples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sweetmonia.com\/Sweet-Drawing-Blog\/photoshop-selection-tools-in-depth-tutorial-with-detailed-examples\/","title":{"rendered":"Photoshop selection tools In-Depth tutorial (With Detailed Examples)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Photoshop selection tools In-Depth tutorial” is part of my Photoshop book “Learn Photoshop CC With Pictures”<\/strong><\/strong>, which is more revised and covers more concepts than the online tutorials,\u00a0feel free to check out the book by visiting my Learn Photoshop CC With Pictures Book Page.<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Photoshop Selecting tools are among\u00a0of the most powerful tools in the program.\u00a0Using these tools, you will be able to control which part of the picture can be modified. Which is one of the main things that\u00a0separate Photoshop from simple drawing programs,\u00a0like Microsoft Paint<\/div>\n
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In this tutorial. I divided Photoshop\u00a0selection tools into 3 groups, the shapes groups, the\u00a0lasso\/ thread group and the wands group. I won’t cover the pen tool here, because I think it deserves its own dedicated lesson.<\/a><\/div>\n

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Exactly as\u00a0the name suggests. The shapes group make selections that takes after a shape. The Rectangular Marquee Tool make a selection of the shape of a rectangle. The Elliptical Marquee Tool\u00a0makes elliptical shapes. And the Single Row Marquee tool and the Single Column Marquee Tool makes a single row or column of\u00a0pixels respectively. We will take a look at each of them in turn:-<\/div>\n

The Rectangular Marquee Tool\u00a0\"Marquee-Selection-Tool<\/h3>\n
Obviously, the\u00a0Rectangular\u00a0Marquee Tool makes rectangular selections. This is useful if the area you want to edit is of the shape of a rectangle or a square. It\u00a0is also a nice way to draw rectangles by selecting an area, and\u00a0then filling it with the brush tool or any other tool.<\/div>\n
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After you make a selection. The area you selected will be surrounded by a dashed lines, like this:-<\/div>\n
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You are now free to paint inside this area however you want, without worrying whatever any of your strokes will escape the area you selected.<\/div>\n
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Candy Tip:-<\/strong> Holding the shift button while making the selection to create a square selection. You can also hold the alt\/option button to make the selection center\u00a0around the point you clicked on\u00a0to start the selection<\/div>\n

The Elliptical Marquee Tool\u00a0\"Elliptical-Selection-Tool\"<\/h3>\n
Similar to the\u00a0Rectangular Marquee Tool, the Elliptical Marquee Tool makes elliptical selections. This is a nice way to draw circles in your pictures.<\/div>\n
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Note:-<\/strong> To access the\u00a0Elliptical Marquee Tool, click and hold your mouse button over the\u00a0Rectangular Marquee Tool. After a little time, the rest of the shape selection tools will appear, this is applicable to all Photoshop tools that has a small triangle at the corner of their icon. Like this:- \"Brush-Tool\"<\/div>\n
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Accessing the rest of Photoshop Selection Tools<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Candy Tip:-<\/strong> The same trick\u00a0of holding shift or alt\/option while making the selection applies to the Elliptical Selection Tool as well<\/p>\n

Single Row Marquee Tool\u00a0\"Single-Row-Marquee-Tool\"<\/h3>\n
The Single Row Marquee Tool select one row of pixels the width of the picture. You can make the exact same selection with some effort by using the Rectangular Marquee Tool, and then selecting one row of pixels from your picture. to be honest, this is a kinda a useless selection tool. The only time I used this is when I am working on a very low-resolution picture. Like a forum avatar, and wanted to select one row of the border of the image.<\/div>\n
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In this low-resolution picture. I was able to select one row of the pixels with one click of the mouse using the Single Row Marquee Tool<\/div>\n
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Single Column Marquee Tool\u00a0\"Single-Column-Marquee-Tool\"<\/h3>\n
Similar To The Single Column Marquee Tool. The Single Column selects one column of pixels with one. And again, you could also do the same effect using the Rectangular marquee tool.<\/div>\n
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Here is how I selected one row of pixels with one click of the Single Column Tool<\/div>\n
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The Lasso Group<\/h2>\n

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According\u00a0to The Free Dictionary<\/a>, Lasso means A\u00a0long\u00a0rope\u00a0with\u00a0a\u00a0running\u00a0noose\u00a0at\u00a0one\u00a0end,\u00a0used\u00a0especially\u00a0to\u00a0catch\u00a0horses\u00a0and\u00a0cattle.\u00a0Also called \u00a0lariat\u201d. The lasso tool in Photoshop works the same way, but instead of catching cows with it. You catch the pixels you want to edit.<\/div>\n
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There are 3 types of Lasso tools. The Lasso Tool , and Polygonal Lasso Tool and the Magnetic Lasso Tools<\/div>\n

The Lasso Tool\u00a0\"Lasso-Tool\"<\/h3>\n
If I were to give a name to the Lasso Tool, it would be \u201cThe Free Selection Tool\u201d. The lasso tools allow you to draw a curve\/thread around the pixels you want to select. This is specially useful way to make selections if you have a graphics tablet.\u00a0But even with that, the final select tend to be less accurate compared to the other selection tools<\/div>\n
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Here is a rough selection I made of the cat face using the Lasso Tool:-<\/div>\n
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The Polygonal Lasso Tool\u00a0\"Polygonal-Lasso-Tool\"<\/h3>\n
The Polygonal Lasso Tool works the same way as the Lasso Tool. Except that instead of letting you freely draw the line you want to. It allows you to draw a polygonal shape around the pixels. This is very useful if the shape\u00a0you want to select is rectangular or polygonal in general. Like this gift box:-<\/div>\n
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The Magnetic Lasso Tool\u00a0\"Magnetic-Lesso-Tool\"<\/h3>\n
This is one of the most interesting selection tool. It is one of the reasons you will be happy you learned Photoshop. This tool also work like the Lasso tool. But instead of drawing the selection completely on your own. Photoshop will simply do the work for you by detecting the edges in the picture.<\/div>\n
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To use the Magnetic Lasso Tool, all you have to do is to click somewhere near the edge of what you want to select. Then keep dragging the cursor around it until it is all selected. Photoshop will do all the work for you, but you can control the selection more by adding more anchor points while you are drawing(by clicking on the left mouse button).<\/div>\n
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I was easily able to select the man in the following picture using the magnetic lasso tool, it took me only a minute or two to do that<\/div>\n
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I then pasted the man into another picture. Some other parts of the background was caught in the selection. So I erased it using the eraser tool \"Eraser-Tool\".\u00a0Which works exactly like the brush tool in the Clear Blending mode.<\/div>\n
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Some of the magnetic tool settings<\/h4>\n

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Here are the main Magnetic Selection tool settings. You can adjust these settings to make it easier to make your selections with the Magnetic Lasso Tool.<\/div>\n
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