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<h2>Selection Tools</h2>
<p>There are four selection tools available. This page will discuss the
first three that are listed below:</p>
<ul>
<li class="nobullet">
<img border="0" src="Images/SelectionTools.png"><br>
</li>
<li>Rectangle Select</li>
<li>Lasso Select</li>
<li>Ellipse Select</li>
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<p>These tools are the primary methods for selecting an area of the image
for modification, deletion, copying, or cropping. The basic use of these
tools is simple, and is similar to the methods used for drawing shapes with
the Shape Tools.</p>
<p>Simply draw a selection by using the left mouse button and dragging the
mouse around until the shape is how you want it. To remove the selection you
may either single-click anywhere while a selection tool is active, or you
may use the <a href="Edit.html#deselect">Edit </a> <a href="Edit.html#PasteInToNewLayer">
<font face="Times New Roman">→</font></a><a href="Edit.html#deselect">
Deselect</a> menu item (also available in the <a href="Toolbar.html">Toolbar</a>).</p>
<p>When a selection is active on the image, a dashed outline will be drawn
to indicate what area is selected. If one of the selection tools is active,
there will also be a blue highlight applied to the selected area. When you
switch to another tool, the blue highlight will be removed so that you may
get better color accuracy.</p>
<p>Also, all drawing is confined to the area you have selected. This
includes <a href="Effects.html">effects</a> and <a href="Adjustments.html">
adjustments</a>. This can be very useful if you want to confine your drawing
to a specific area of the image.</p>
<p>These tools also allow you to alter a selection in one of
three different combination modes: subtraction, addition, and inversion.
These modes are also known as exclusion, union, and exclusive-or ("xor").
For a quick reference to these commands, see
<a href="KeyboardMouseCommands.html">Keyboard & Mouse Commands</a>.
Also, selections may be moved, resized, and rotated: see
<a href="MoveTools.html">Move Tools</a> for more information.</p>
<p>In order to create a new selection, or to replace the currently active
selection, just draw with the left mouse button. The behavior will be
similar to the shape tools. You may hold down the Shift key while using the
Rectangle Select or Ellipse Select tools to constrain the shape to be a
square or a circle, respectively. The following circle selection was made
using the Ellipse Selection tool:</p>
<ul>
<li class="nobullet">
<img border="0" src="../images/CircleSelection.png" width="140" height="140"></li>
</ul>
<p>To add on to an existing selection, simply hold down the Ctrl key while
drawing a selection. This allows you to easily select two areas of the image
that are not connected to each other, or extend a selection to adjacent
areas. The following selection was made by
drawing a circle selection using the Ellipse Select tool, followed by
drawing a square using the Rectangle Select tool while holding down the Ctrl key:</p>
<ul>
<li class="nobullet">
<img border="0" src="../images/CircleSquareSelection.png" width="250" height="141"></li>
</ul>
<p>To remove portions from an existing selection, use the right mouse button
instead of the left mouse button when you draw the selection. This lets you
carve out parts of the selection that you are not interested in. This lets
you easily do selections like the following, which was accomplished by
drawing one circle with the Ellipse Select tool, and then drawing another
circle inside of it while holding down the right mouse button:</p>
<ul>
<li class="nobullet">
<img border="0" src="../images/ConcentricCircleSelection.png" width="150" height="147"></li>
</ul>
<p>The third selection combination mode is that of inversion and is possibly by holding down Ctrl while using the right
mouse button (instead of the left mouse button) while drawing part of a
selection. This will causes active areas of the selection to become
inactive, and vice versa. This allows you to create selections like the
following, made using the Ellipse Select and Rectangle Select tools:</p>
<ul>
<li class="nobullet">
<img border="0" src="../images/XorSelection.png" width="170" height="164"></li>
</ul>
<p>In the following 3-part example, a picture was taken in Las Vegas, and then the
tall building on the left was selected using the Rectangle Select tool:</p>
<ul>
<li class="nobullet">
<img border="0" src="Images/RectangleSelect.jpg"></li>
</ul>
<p>In the next image, the flag on the right of the image was added to the
selection by holding down the Ctrl key while using the Rectangle Select
tool:</p>
<ul>
<li class="nobullet">
<img border="0" src="Images/ComboSelect.jpg"></li>
</ul>
<p>In the last image of this example, parts of the selection were removed in
order to confine the selection to just the building and flag. This was done by
using the Lasso Select tool and using the right mouse button to carve out
selection areas:</p>
<ul>
<li class="nobullet">
<img border="0" src="Images/ComboSelect2.jpg"></p></li>
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<font color="#808080" size="1">Copyright <font face="Times New Roman">⌐ 2006 </font>Rick Brewster,
Chris Crosetto, Dennis Dietrich, Tom
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