Making Selective Changes in Photoshop CC - Adobe Photoshop CC - page 53

You will work with several files from the ps04lessons folder in this lesson. Make sure that you have loaded
the pslessons folder onto your hard drive from www.digitalclassroombooks.com/epub/photoshopcc . See
“Loading lesson files” in the Starting up section of this topic.
The importance of a good selection
“You have to select it to affect it” is an old saying in the image-editing industry. To make changes to spe-
cific regions in your images, you must activate only those areas. To do this, you can use selection tools
such as the Marquee, Lasso, and Quick Selection tools, or you can create a selection by painting a mask.
For precise selections, you can use the Pen tool. In this lesson, you'll learn how to select pixels in an im-
age with both pixel and pen (vector) selection techniques.
You'll start with some simple selection methods and then progress into more difficult selection techniques.
Note that even if you are an experienced Photoshop user, you will want to follow the entire lesson; there
are tips and tricks included that will help all levels of users achieve the best selections possible.
Using the Marquee tools
The first selection tools you'll use are the Marquee tools, which include Rectangular, Elliptical, Single
Row, and Single Column tools. Some of the many uses for the Rectangular and Elliptical Marquee tools
are to isolate an area for cropping, to create a border around an image, or to use that area in the image for
corrective or creative image adjustment.
1 In Photoshop, choose File > Browse in Bridge. Navigate to the ps04lessons folder and double-click
ps0401_done.psd to open the image of a car. The completed image appears. You can leave the file
open for reference, or choose File > Close to close it.
The completed selection file.
2 Return to Adobe Bridge by choosing File > Browse in Bridge. Navigate to the ps04lessons folder and
double-click ps0401.psd to open the image. The start file for this lesson appears.
3 Choose File > Save As. When the Save As dialog box appears, navigate to the ps04lessons folder. In the
File name text field, type ps0401_work . Choose Photoshop from the Format drop-down menu and
click Save. If the Photoshop Format Options dialog box appears, click OK.
4 Select the Rectangular Marquee tool ( ), near the top of the Tools panel.
5 Make sure that Snap is selected by choosing View > Snap. If the check box shows a checkmark, it is
already active.