Modifying Selections - Adobe 29180155 - Photoshop Elements 4.0 Tutorial

Modifying selections

Move a selection border
Invert a selection
Add to or subtract from a selection
Select an area that intersects an existing selection
Expand or contract a selection by a specific number of pixels
Frame an existing selection with a new selection border
Include areas of similar color in a selection
Remove stray pixels from a color-based selection
Defringe a selection
Move a selection border
Moving a selection border repositions just the border without altering the photo.
1. Using any selection tool, click New Selection
The pointer changes to indicate that you can move the selection
Note: The New Selection option appears in the options bar when any selection tool is selected—except the Selection Brush
tool. Switch to another selection tool temporarily, if necessary, to select this option.
2. Do one of the following:
Drag the border to enclose a different area of the photo. You can drag a selection border beyond the canvas boundaries;
however, this makes it hard to get back. You can also drag the selection border to another image window.
To move the selection in 1-pixel increments, use an arrow key.
To move the selection in 10-pixel increments, hold down Shift, and use an arrow key.
To constrain the direction to multiples of 45°, begin dragging, and then hold down Shift as you continue to drag.
Invert a selection
Inverting a selection changes the unselected areas into selected areas, protecting the area you previously selected.
In a photo with an existing selection border, choose Select > Inverse.
You can use this command to easily select an object that appears against a solid-colored area. Select the solid color using
the Magic Wand tool, and then choose Select > Inverse.
Add to or subtract from a selection
You can add to or subtract from an existing selection to fine-tune selection borders. For example, you could make a donut-shaped selection by first
making a circular selection and then subtracting a circular selection within it.
Select a selection tool, and do one of the following:
Hold down Shift (a plus sign appears next to the pointer) to add to the selection, or hold down Alt (Option in Mac OS) to
subtract (a minus sign appears next to the pointer) from a selection. Then select the area to add or subtract and make
another selection.
Click Add To Selection
Selection and Subtract From Selection options appear in the options bar when any selection tool is selected.)
Select an area that intersects an existing selection
You can limit the area a selection affects. For example, in a picture of snow-capped mountains, you can select white clouds in the sky without
selecting parts of the white mountain below them by selecting the entire sky, and then using the Magic Wand tool with Intersect With Selection
selected and Contiguous deselected to select only the white areas included within the existing sky selection.
in the options bar, and position the pointer inside an existing selection border.
or Subtract From Selection in the options bar, and make another selection. (The Add To
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