Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Figure 5-18. Left: Sometimes it's tough to draw exactly the selection you want. Here, attempting to
avoid the sign and the palm fronds led to cutting off part of the rope bumper on the boat's bow.
Right: After you've decided that it would be easier to clone out any unwanted fronds (page 318 ex-
plains how), Transform Selection makes it easy to resize the selection to include the whole rope.
To use Transform Selection:
1.
Make a selection
.
Use the Selection tool(s) of your choice. Transform Selection is especially handy
when you've used one of the Marquee tools and didn't get the selection quite right.
2.
Go to Select
→
Transform Selection, or right-click/Control-click inside your selec-
tion and then choose Transform Selection from the shortcut menu
.
Either way, a bounding box with little square handles appears around your selection,
as shown in
Figure 5-18
. (The bounding box is rectangular even if your selection is
some other shape.) The Tool Options area changes to show the settings for this fea-
