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To 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.
Selecting sky and top of mountains with the Rectangular Marquee tool (top). Selecting the Intersect With Selection option and using the Magic
Wand tool to select the clouds (middle). Resulting image after increasing the brightness of the clouds (bottom).
In the Editor, select a selection tool, and do one of the following:
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• Select Intersect With Selection
Hold down Option+Shift so that cross hairs appear next to the pointer, and select an area that intersects the
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existing selection.
To expand or contract a selection by a specific number of pixels
You can use commands in the Select menu to increase or decrease the size of an existing selection and to clean up
stray pixels left inside or outside a color-based selection.
In the Editor, use a selection tool to make a selection.
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Choose Select > Modify > Expand or Contract.
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For Expand By or Contract By, enter a pixel value between 1 and 100, and click OK.
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The selection border is moved outward or inward by the specified number of pixels. Any portion of the selection
border that runs along the canvas edge is unaffected.
To frame an existing selection with a new selection border
The Border command creates a soft-edged, anti-aliased selection border. When you add the new selection border,
only pixels between the two selection borders are selected.
in the options bar, and select an area that intersects the existing selection.
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