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The Quick Selection tool

The Quick Selection tool - Photoshop Tutorial

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The Quick Selection tool

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In this exercise, I'll show you how to both use and control the behavior of the Quick Selection tool, and then in the next exercise we'll see a potential use for it. I've saved my progress as Matching frog eyes.psd, and you get to the Quick Selection tool by clicking and holding on the tool below the Lasso tool, which may in your case either be the Quick Selection tool or the Magic Wand, which is why the tools have a keyboard shortcut of W. After all, the Wand is an older tool, it got its keyboard shortcut first, and then Quick Selection was added later. I hasten to add here that the tools are utterly and completely unrelated to each other, they work in remarkably different ways, and they have different purposes as well. Now, let's say I want use the Quick Selection tool to select this forward foot down here. So I'll go ahead and Zoom in on it. And you use the tool by brushing in a selection, and notice as you brush, Photoshop goes ahead and automatically grows the selection to what…

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