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Selecting with alternating modes

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Selecting with alternating modes

- Let's continue our look at the Super Marquee tool by using the alternating selection modes. Notice that I have my AstuteBuddy panel open so I can always see the keyboard shortcuts that work with the Super Marquee tool. And in my file I have just one star. I'm going to duplicate this star to create a grid of 100 stars. So I'll select it and double click the selection tool and in the Move dialog box I'll move my star 50 pixels horizontally and click Copy. Then to use the Transform Again command I'll press Command + D on the Mac or Control + D on Windows several times to make a row of 10 stars in all. So there's three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. I'll select all of them, double click the Selection tool again and I'll make a copy of this row 50 pixels below the original. And click Copy again and press Command or Control + D to make 10 rows. Three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. So…

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