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Photo Editing: The Full Power Of Basic Selections By Steve Patterson, Photoshop Essentials.
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This Photoshop Tutorial © 2008 Steve Patterson, Photoshop Essentials.
com.
Not To Be Reproduced Or Redistributed Without Permission.
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Photo Editing: The Full Power Of Basic Selections By Steve Patterson, Photoshop Essentials.
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In this Photoshop tutorial, we’re going to look at how to get the most out of Photoshop’s basic selection tools, such as
the Marquee tools or the Lasso tool.
If all you’ve been using them for is to make a new selection every time, you’ve been
missing out on their full potential.
We’re going to see how you can add to an existing selection, how to subtract an area
from an existing selection, and even how to intersect two selections and grab the area that overlaps.
Once you become
familiar with the full power of basic selections, they’ll seem a whole lot more useful to you.
Let’s start by taking a look at how to add to an existing selection.
A basic shape in Photoshop.
Selecting the Rectangular Marquee Tool from Photoshop’s Tools palette.
Selecting the
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