From the course: Photoshop CC for Photographers: The Basics
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Working with the Rectangular Marquee tool - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CC for Photographers: The Basics
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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Selecting with the Elliptical Marquee tool5m 57s
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Working with the Rectangular Marquee tool2m 16s
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Using the Polygonal Lasso tool2m 55s
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Adding to or subtracting from your selection5m 28s
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Using the Magnetic Lasso tool4m 19s
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Working with the Quick Select tool5m 51s
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Removing the background with Quick Select7m 37s
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Using Color Range6m 54s
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