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Marquee tool6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Single Column Tool create a selection in the document height and 1 pixel width. Single Row Tool creates a selection in the width of your document and a height of 1 pixel. Click and drag to create a circle and hold the SHIFT key if you want to create a perfect circle. For now, take a look at this tool’s options and make yourself familiar for my future tutorials.Įlliptical Tool is the same as everything you have learned, so far, about the Rectangular Tool. This is a really powerful tool for any selections and we will learn more about it when we start masking difficult objects. The Refine Edge tool can be found under Menu > Select > Refine Edge or with the Shortcut ALT+CRTL+R. If you want to create a selection with double the width of height then you can enter the value Width: 2 and Height: 1 Refine Edge If you enter a value of 1:1, your selection will have the same width and height - a square. Now, let’s change the Style to Fixed Ratio and take a look at this option. Once you click on your canvas, a selection will be made in that size. Set the Style to Fixed size and enter 80 x 30 pixel for Width and Height. It would be quite hard to measure this size by eye or to create guides to help you. Imagine, for example, that you want to create a button that’s 80 x 30 pixel. However, sometimes designers need to create a selection in a specific ratio or size. It’s great that we have the flexibility to create a selection in any size. ![]() Until now, the Style value was set to “Normal” which allows us to create a selection in any size we want. While this may not look powerful at first glance, it’s very useful:Īnother cool option is the Style drop-down from the Option bar: As soon as you release the mouse button after dragging, you will notice your selection edges have softened. Enter a value around 35px and create a New selection. Other Marquee Tool options on the options bar include the Feather value. And, of course, I can not continue without giving you the Shortcut… press and hold ALT+SHIFT together and your mouse cursor should become a small X. The dark blue shows the new selection where the Magenta and the Cyan selection overlay. Make a Magenta shape selection then use the Intersect selection to overlay the second Cyan shape. Instead of adding or subtracting one selection from another, the Intersect selection makes a new selection where the first and the second selection meet. Again, play around a little and you will already start creating cool things You can use the click ALT from the default selection to subtract. The next button does the exact opposite… instead of adding a selection, it subtracts. □ For Shortcut fans, like me, you can use also click SHIFT from the default selection and it will add a selection to the existing one. Play around with this option and have some fun. You will notice that the existing selection did not disappear and the new selection is added. Now, create another selection over the left corner of the current selection. Make a selection on your canvas, then click on the Add to selection button from the option bar. Let’s explore the other three button options: Add to selection This is the option for the Marquee Tool:īy default, New selection is checked in the options bar which means every time you click and drag with this Marquee Tool, a new selection will be created. When you select a tool in Photoshop, notice that the option bar under the menu changes depending on the tool you’ve selected. Of course, if you press SHIFT+ALT, you can make a square from the center of your click. If you press and hold the ALT key, your selection will be created from the center of where you clicked. First, if you press and hold the SHIFT key, you will get a square selection. There are two important keys you want to keep in mind when using Marquee Selections. As you might have expected, it makes a rectangular selection. Let’s select the Rectangular Tool then click on our canvas and drag. ![]() Note: you can quickly select the Marquee Tool by pressing M then, you can switch between the Rectangular and Elliptical Marquee Tool by pressing SHIFT+M. If you open the Marquee Tool from the Toolbar, you will see four different tool options: Marquee Tool are one of the simplest Selection Tools that Photoshop can offer. Let’s stop talking the talk, and get to it! Marquee Tool You might not think some of the tools are important but eventually, you will see how beneficial they can be when combined with other selections and masking tools. There are so many ways to make selections and in this tutorial, I will try to show you the majority of them. Do you need to remove an image’s background or cut out a specific portion from a photo? Well, have no fear… the Marquee Tools Selections are here! While designing, designers will inevitably be faced with the need to select and extract specific elements from an overall graphic. ![]()
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