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Working with the Rectangular Marquee tool

Working with the Rectangular Marquee tool - Photoshop Tutorial

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Working with the Rectangular Marquee tool

As we've seen so far, the Marquee tools allow us to make elliptical or rectangular selections of specific areas so that we can then perform or apply adjustments to those areas. Well, let's continue this conversation, but here what I want to do is take a look at how we can make a selection. And then I want to look at how we can invert or reverse that selection so that we can select everything, but the specified area. Let me show you what I mean. This is a photograph that I captured in the UK, and what I want to do is I want to desaturate everything in this image except for this red door here and the light. So, let's go ahead and reach for one of our Marquee tools. The one which will work better is the rectangular Marquee tool, select that. Next, we'll go ahead and we'll position our cursor over the image, and then click and drag in order to create a selection of the area that we want to work on. In this case, this part of the image. Well now currently, if I want to make an adjustment…

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