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in this next set of lessons we are going to be discussing the various types of selection tools
available in Photoshop now if we look in the upper left you can see here I have these four different
selection tools we have our basic selection of selecting the whole image we have selecting parts
of the image using the Marquee tool and the lasso tools and also the quick selection and
our magic wand tools which we'll be looking at in future videos now if we right click on the
Marquee tool you're going to see that we have a variety of different types of Marquee tools and
we're going to be focusing on the rectangular one and the elliptical one now the first thing
I'm going to do before I even get started is I'm going to unlock this layer so I can have a little
more flexibility with what I can do with it now when we use these tools essentially we are just
selecting part of the image so we can do things to it so maybe it's as simple as deleting part
of the image it could be copying to be able to paste it someplace else maybe you're going to
fill it in with color you can do all kinds of different things with just some basic selection
so let's say for example I do not want to have this kind of top gray part of my image here
so I can just simply highlight it and now that is active so all I need to do is hit the delete key
on my keyboard and that is gone and you can see now judging from the checkerboard in the
background that is now transparent so for whatever is going to be behind this image in another layer
that would show through or there would be nothing there at all okay now once you have something
selected it's a very good idea to deselect it so a couple of ways you can do that number one is just
a very simple right click and you can see here is deselect I can do that I'm going to go and undo
that by doing control or command Z and there's another way that I like which is the keyboard
shortcut of control or command D for deselect I use that one all the time good idea to always
deselect whenever you're done selecting because then Photoshop won't get confused and think you
still want that to be an active part of your image to be able to do something to it okay so
I'm going to go and undo one more time bring that all the way back and then I'm going to go ahead
and deselect now let's take a look at another way that we could be using the Marquee tool so I'm
going to draw out a perfect square by holding down the shift key because maybe I want to have this
little bit of this image selected and notice I can also move it around and I really like that and I
want to have this on another document altogether so basically I'm going to copy it and then paste
it someplace else keeping this one preserved so very simply I can go to edit and then copy
and then I'm going to go to file and then new and then I'm going to say create and now I have an
empty canvas waiting for me to then paste that image in there okay so now I have pretty much
a close-up of this image I didn't have to crop anything anything like that and then I have this
image while this original image is still preserved let's come back to the original image I'm going
to hit Ctrl D deselect it and now let's go ahead and do the elliptical Marquee tool I'm going to
hold down the shift key to make a perfect circle but this time I'm going to do something kind of
fun I'm going to right click on it and I'm going to say select the inverse and now the outside is
selected and now what I'm going to do is I'm going to hit the delete key and what's going to happen
when I hit the delete key it's going to delete everything but the middle of the image because
I selected the inverse selection nice little trick there so I hit the delete key and now I have this
beautiful image right there and I'm going to go ahead and just do command or control D and I have
this as my image in a pretty neat way right where you can have a nice little circle A Perfect Circle
framing my image just like that okay and I'll show you one nice little trick here to get rid
of all these extra transparent pixels if you go over here to image and then you say trim you can
see here it's going to trim all the transparent pixels the top bottom left and right I click ok
and now I have exactly the image I want okay so lots you can do with such a simple tool so
please go ahead pause the video practice that and we'll see you in the next lesson
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