From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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The marquee tools - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
The marquee tools
In this first exercise we'll take a look at the basics of working with the Marquee tools, which allow you to create geometric selection outlines either in the shapes of rectangles or ellipses. Now these are not difficult tools to use and I'm guessing you already have experience with them. I just want you to know all of the tips and tricks at your disposal so you can maximize the performance of these tools as you work inside your own images. I happen to be working inside a file called Red-eyed tree frog.psd. It comes to us from the Fotolia image library about which you can learn more at fotolia.com/deke. Notice, I have the Rectangular Marquee tool selected that is the default tool inside Photoshop meaning it's the tool that's selected when you first launch the program and it's a great go-to tool not only because you'll find yourself using it an awful lot rectangular selections are very common, but also because it has an unobtrusive cursor just a simple cross so you can easily see…
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The marquee tools6m 31s
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The single-pixel tools (plus tool tricks)6m 48s
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Turning a destructive edit into a layer5m 34s
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Making shapes of specific sizes7m 7s
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The lasso tools5m 49s
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Working with the Magnetic Lasso tool7m 19s
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The Quick Selection tool8m 13s
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Combining Quick Selection and Smudge4m 52s
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The Magic Wand and the Tolerance value6m 55s
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Contiguous and Anti-aliased selections6m 58s
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Making a good selection with the Magic Wand6m 34s
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Selecting and replacing a background6m 55s
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Resolving edges with layer effects7m 52s
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Adding lines of brilliant gold type7m 28s
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The seven selection soldiers52s
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