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Lasso & Marquee Tools
Lasso tool
Polygon Lasso
tool
Rectangle
Marquee tool
Oval
Marquee tool
The Lasso & Marquee tools enable you
to create a selection on your images
that will limit where an enhancement
affects your image. The selection
created by the Lasso & Marquee tools
can also limit where any of the other
selection tools are applied. The Lasso &
Marquee Tools are not accessible while
working within the Browser.
There are four Lasso & Marquee tools.
You can select among these four tools
by holding the mouse down on the
button in the Toolbar and selecting
from the tools that appear.
The Lasso Tool is the default tool and
enables you to freely draw a selection
on the image.
The Polygon Lasso Tool enables you to
draw a selection with straight edges by
connecting straight lines. Anchor points
are created at each of the connections,
and these anchor points can be moved
to alter the selection.
Please note: Any additional selections
made will remove these anchor points.
The Rectangle Marquee Tool enables
you to draw a square selection.
Hold down the Shift key after you begin
drawing the selection to constrain the
selection to a square.
Hold down the Alt (Windows) or Option
(Mac OS) key while drawing the selec-
tion to draw the selection from the
center instead of the corner.
The Oval Marquee Tool enables you to
draw a round selection.
Hold down the Shift key after you begin
drawing the selection to constrain the
selection to a circle.
Hold down the Alt (Windows) or Option
(Mac OS) key while drawing the selec-
tion to draw the selection from the
center instead of the corner.
After selecting which Lasso & Marquee
Tool to use, you can choose to make
the tool either a Plus or Minus Tool by
clicking on the
or
can temporarily switch to the opposite
tool by pressing the Alt (Windows) or
Option (Mac OS) key.
Once you have made a selection using
one of the Lasso & Marquee tools, you
can use one of the other selection tools
to add or remove the current enhance-
ment while limiting to the area created
by the Lasso & Marquee tool.
To completely deselect, double-click
anywhere within the image.
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