Adobe PHOTOSHOP 5.0 User Manual page 154

146 CHAPTER 7
Selecting
Grow and Similar to expand a selection to
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include areas similar in color.
Smooth to clean up any stray pixels left inside or
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outside a color-based selection.
To expand or contract a selection border:
Choose Select > Modify > Expand or Contract.
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For Expand By or Contract By, enter a pixel
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value between 1 and 16, and click OK.
The border is increased or decreased by the
specified number of pixels. Any portion of the
selection border running along the image's edge is
unaffected.
To frame an existing selection with a selection:
Use a selection tool to make a selection.
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Choose Select > Modify > Border.
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Enter a value between 1 and 64 pixels for the
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width of the border, and click OK.
The new selection frames the border of the
original selected area.
Original selection, and with Border command: 5 pixels
The Border command always creates an anti-
aliased selection (see "Softening the edges of a
selection" on page 147). To paint a hard-edged
border around a selection, use the Stroke
command (see "Filling and stroking selections and
layers" on page 211).
To extend a selection based on color:
Do one of the following:
Choose Select > Grow to include adjacent pixels
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falling within the tolerance range specified in the
Magic Wand Options palette.
Original selection, and with Grow command applied
Choose Select > Similar to include pixels
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throughout the image, not just adjacent ones,
falling within the tolerance range.
Original selection, and with Similar command applied