Selection Tools
Selection Tools & Selections
Gallery
![]()
|
Students will learn to use:
![]()
|
Steps
To make a round selection you just click and drag the cursor over the area that you want to select.
Try it.
Try it!!! Now zoom in the area with the blueberry. Select it. |

The next step is to move the blueberry over the carrot slice.
Move tool is for moving!
Select the Move tool
Move tool is for moving!
Select the Move tool

Place it inside your selection. Do you see the cursor changed to scissors? By using this tool right now you are cutting the blueberry out of the background in order to reposition it.
Drag the selection over the carrot slice.
While your blueberry is still selected, you can adjust its position (with a mouse or using the arrow keys on the keyboard)
Once you deselect it - it it permanently embedded into the image.
Deselect:
Select > Deselect on the menu bar
or Command D (Ctrl D)
Drag the selection over the carrot slice.
While your blueberry is still selected, you can adjust its position (with a mouse or using the arrow keys on the keyboard)
Once you deselect it - it it permanently embedded into the image.
Deselect:
Select > Deselect on the menu bar
or Command D (Ctrl D)

Use the same Marquee tool to select the carrot slice.
Let's add the second eye.
It is important that your carrot is still selected. There is a way in Photoshop to duplicate selections and move them at the same time. Choose the Move tool. Place the cursor inside the selection (carrot). Hold Option (Alt) key. See a small plus sign? Keep holding it down. Now drag you carrot selection to create another eye. Position the second slice. Now you can deselect. |
Zoom in the area with the kiwi.
You are going to select it. One way to select is to use the Elliptical Marquee Tool. You are going to use Quick Selection Tool. This tool is a cross between Magic Wand and a Brush Tool. It selects as you move it around. You can change the size of it in the Option bar. I chose size 8. Now place it over the kiwi and click, hold the mouse and move the cursor over the green area. Don't hold it too long - it will select too much. If it did not work right - deselect and start over. |