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Selecting with the Elliptical Marquee tool

Selecting with the Elliptical Marquee tool - Photoshop Tutorial

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Selecting with the Elliptical Marquee tool

In the Photoshop community, it's common to hear people say, you need to select before you correct. And it's true. And, you know, the better you can get at selections. Well, the better your corrections and enhancements. And so here, let's take a look at a few selection tools that we can use in order to select a portion of our image. In order to make a correction, an enhancement, or a change. To that area of our photograph. We'll be working with this photograph of my little Annie here dressed up in her Halloween costume as a sweet pea. And what I want to do is change a portion of the costume. I want to change an area of color. All right, let's navigate over to the Tools panel. You know, if you have a toolbox, typically, you have the tools which you use most often near the top or somehow easily accessible in that toolbox. And so it is with our Selection tools. We'll find those right up top up here. And let's start off with the very first selection tool which is this one. It's called the…

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