Photoshop Tutorials for dummies to geeks


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You might have already checked out the flexibility PS offers you under an icon. Just select what you need.
Let us begin with the Marquee tool.
1.File/open or Ctrl+O to open a file.
2.Click the Marquee tool or M to select it.
3.Right click the icon to generate the list of selection options PS offers you.
       a.Rectangular
       b.Elliptical
       c.Single Row
       d.Single Column
I'm here taking the pic of my one year old little sister to be experimented on.
Now i want to select her face and little background behind her.

4.Select the rectangular marquee tool and draw a rectangular box around her face.
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This way you have made a selection on an image.
Similarly try out the elliptical Marquee tool.

TIP: HOLD DOWN THE SHIFT KEY WHILE USING THIS TOOL TO DRAW A PERFECT CIRCLE INSTEAD OF ELLIPSE.

The Single row and column marquee tools are of little importance now and we'll learn about them later.


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