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Selections using a variety of tools

Selections using a variety of tools - Photoshop Tutorial

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Selections using a variety of tools

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Knowing how to make selections effectively is one of the key concepts in Photoshop and it's really an essential skill to work effectively. Now in this topic we will be covering most of the selection tools that you will be asked about in the exam but this is a big topic and there's so many advanced ways of making selections so we will really just go through the most important ones. Now, first of all, there is a shortcut to select everything in your document that's Command or Control A. To remove a selection that's called deselect it would be Command or Control D. We can also find these options in the select menu so select all and deselect. There's also reselect so selecting what was selected before and we can also invert a selection So for instance if we make a selection of this part in the image I'm just using the Rectangular Marquee Tool which is here in the toolbar we can also invert this selection by using Inverse. So that would be Cmd or Ctrl Shift I so right now it is selecting…

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