Adobe 29180155 - Photoshop Elements 4.0 Tutorial page 177

Selecting the 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).
Select a selection tool, and do one of the following:
Select Intersect With Selection
Hold down Alt (Option in Mac OS) + Shift so that cross-hairs appear next to the pointer, and select an area that intersects
the existing selection.
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.
1. Use a selection tool to make a selection.
2. Choose Select > Modify > Expand or Contract.
3. For Expand By or Contract By, enter a pixel value between 1 and 100, and click OK.
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.
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.
Using the Border command to create a 4-pixel border selection (top). Copying the selection to a new layer and filling to make an outline of the
image (center). Filling the selection into the original image to create an outline around the image (bottom).
1. Use a selection tool to make a selection.
2. Choose Select > Modify > Border.
3. Enter a value between 1 and 200 pixels in the Width text box, and click OK.
in the options bar, and select an area that intersects the existing selection.
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