Lecture 5 - Selection in Photoshop

square

The first, a ____, draws a new selection each time

overlapping squares

The second, ______, adds to previous selections

a filled and an empty square, ALT

The third, _______, subtracts the new selection from the previous. You can also subtract by holding the ____ key and making a new selection

overlapping squares

The fourth, ______, keeps only the area shared by the new and previous selections

anti-aliasing box

Clicking the ______ smooths the edges

Options

_____ also include settings for thickening or feathering of the border

Select and Mask
Alt + Ctrl + R

The ______ button will create a masking layer using your selection (______)

Select menu

Some of the choices are selection tools. Others modify selection tools found in the toolbar.

Ctrl + A

Select All

Ctrl + D

Deselect command

marching ants

In Photoshop, a selected area is bordered by ‘_______’

marching ants

This is a dashed line that appears to move

selected area

By default, the _____ is within the line of marching ants

Select, Inverse
Shift + Ctrl +I

But you have the option to invert it. Go to the Select drop-down menu and choose ____ > _____ (______)

Shift + Ctrl +I

This selects everything outside the marching ants

Marquee tools

The _____ let you drag a shape over an area to select it.

rectangular, elliptical, single line

You can choose a _____ marquee tool, an _____ marquee tool, or two ______ shapes

release

Choose the marquee you want to use, click on your image and drag the shape to size. The selection appears when you _____ it.

Shift, corner

Hold the ____ key when dragging to create a square or a circle. By default, you drag the shape from a _____

Alt, Option

Hold the ____ or ____ key to create a shape starting in the center

options bar, Fixed

In the _____, you can change the style from Normal to ____ Ratio. This creates a square or a circle. You can also choose a pre- defined size for the selection

Ctrl + Alt

Holding _____ and dragging your selection will duplicate its content

Lasso tool

The ______ lets you draw freely around the object you want to select. The tool is not very precise. Use it when you want to make a rough selection

Polygonal Lasso

The ______ selects shapes that consist of straight lines. These can be more complicated shapes than just squares or rectangles

Shift

In polygonal lasso, hold the ____ key while dragging to make a horizontal or vertical line.

double click

In a lasso tool, the selection shape completes when you return to where you started or _____

Magnetic Lasso, curves

The ______ tool works like the Lasso. First, draw around the object that you want to select. As you draw, the line is drawn to edges, like a magnet, to make a more precise selection. This tool works well when you are an object with a lot of _____

Pins

In magnetic lasso tool, click one edge of the object that you want to select. Then, drag the line around the shape. ____ appear where the tool has locked onto an edge

Caps Lock, Width

The Magnetic tool is really a circle. It is easier to see this if you turn on _____. Photoshop looks inside the circle for an edge. Making the ____ larger in the options bar makes the circle bigger

contrast, Frequency

In a magnetic lasso tool, you can also adjust the _____ to make it easier for the program to find an edge. _____ is the number of pins placed around the edge. Change this if you want to see more or fewer pins. But you can click to add a pin at any point along the line

2019

Adobe introduced Object Selection in the ____ version of Photoshop. At first, it seems to work like the Marquee tool

Object Selection

First, draw a rectangle or lasso around the object that you want to select. Next, Photoshop analyses the contents of the shape to find an object within. The program then refines the selection around the subject

Quick Selection

The _____ tool is a fast way of selecting a well-defined object. Click inside the object you want to select. Photoshop scans for colors and edges and expands the selection to include similar pixels

Quick Selection, +, -, ALT

The _____ tool works like a brush tool. You can change the size, hardness, spacing, and angle of the brush stroke. Click the __ icon to add to the selection. Click the __ sign or hold the ____ key to erase parts of the selection

Select And Mask

If you need to refine your selection, go to the Options bar and click on ______. This will bring up the _____ Workspace, where you can use tools like the Redefine Edge Brush Tool and regular Brush Tool to clean up your selection

Select Subject

When you need a selection of your subject but don’t feel like spending the time, the _____ Button is the answer. This tool is great for getting a selection started, so all you need to do is refine it as needed. It can also be used as a way to create selective adjustments to your subject when editing photos

Object Selection, Quick Selection, Magic Wand

To access the Select Subject Button, select either the _____ Tool, _____ Tool, or the _____ Tool

Select Subject

With your desired tool selected (I chose the Object Selection Tool), you will now find the _____ Button in the Options bar. Clicking the button will automatically select the subject in your image

layer mask

With your subject selected, you can now make any edits you need for your project, including removing the background by adding a _____

B, white, black

You can fix this by using the Brush Tool (__) and painting ___ to add or ____ to remove from your layer mask

Control + Alt + R
Command + Option + R

Alternatively, you can use the Select and Mask workspace by pressing ____ + ____ + ___ (Win) or _____ + ____ + __ (Mac) to clean up the selection

Remove Background

The ______ Button is a good alternative to the Select Subject Button in situations when you just want to remove the background.

Remove Background

This button does the extra step of adding your selection to a layer mask and non-destructively cutting out your image

Window, Properties

To find the Remove Background Button, make sure the Properties Window is open by going to ____ > _____

Object Selection, AI subject detection

The ______ Tool is a good alternative to the Quick Selection Tool and works by creating a selection from a defined Marquee or Lasso selection. In more recent updates to Photoshop, ______ allows you to simply click on your subject to turn it into a selection. This makes it easy to select one or multiple subjects in a photo

W

The Object Selection Tool can be found in the Toolbar or by pressing ___

Magic Wand

With the _____, click on your target color to select all the pixels that match that color. The tool will find other similar colored pixels in your image and add them to a single selection

Tolerance

If you find that not all your target color is being selected, experiment with the _____ until you find a better result. A higher _____ will include more shades of a sampled color

Select Color Range

______ tool is considered as one of the favorite tool for selecting a single color

Select Color Range, Fuzziness Slider,

The only issue is that there are limited options to prevent the tool from selecting more areas than you were hoping to. However, what this tool gains over the Magic Wand Tool is the use of the ______, which makes it easier to refine your color selection more accurately

Select, Color Range

To select a color range for your image, go to _____ > _______

white

A window will pop up, where an eyedropper tool is automatically selected. Now click on the color you wish to remove, and it will appear ____ in the selection preview

2021

Before Adobe added a Sky searchment tool to Photoshop ____, you had to mask skies manually

Select, Sky

Open the Select drop-down menu and choose ____ > ____. Photoshop identifies the sky, even if there are interferences, like leafy trees

Quick Mask, Q

If you prefer to use the paintbrush tool to make selections, use the _____ mode. Click the icon found at the bottom of the toolbar or the __ hotkey

Select, Edit in Quick Mask

You can also open a Quick Mask by going to the Select drop- down menu and choosing _____ > ______

red, white

With a paintbrush, mask areas you do not want to be selected. You can change the size and softness of the brush and opacity and flow—the mask shows as a ___ overlay. If you make a mistake, toggle the paintbrush to ____ to erase the overlay

Shift

Add to selection (hold down ____ while using the following tools: Magic Wand, Lasso tools, Marquee tools)

Alt/Option

Subtract from selection (hold down _____ while using the following tools: Magic Wand, Lasso tools, Marquee tools)

Alt/Option, Shift

Intersect selections (hold down _____ and ____ together to intersect a new selection with a previous one)

• Control-A

• Control-D

• Control-Shift-D

• Select All ( _____ to select the whole canvas)

• Deselect ( _____ to deselect everything)

• Reselect ( ______ to reselect the previous selection)

• Shift +Control-I

• Spacebar

• Invert selection in Photoshop (_______ to deselect what was previously selected and select what was not selected)

• Move selection in Photoshop (hold down _____ while still drawing the selection with Marquee tools to move it around)

• Shift

• Alt/Option

• Perfect circle or Square (hold down ____ with the Elliptical or Rectangular Marquee tools while creating them)

• Draw selection from the center (hold down ______ with the Elliptical or Rectangular Marquee

Channels, Select

Saving your selections can be useful if you need to come back to them at a later date. Saved selections in Photoshop are stored as _____. They are essentially Pixel Masks not assigned to any layer. You can find these options under the _____ menu

Transform Selections

This can be achieved by holding down Control while dragging one of the control points of the transform bounding box. You can also use Warp features to bend and reshape your selections with this feature

feather selection

The _____ Photoshop tool will soften the edges of your selection

Feathering

The pixel size of _____ will define the size of the gradual softening around the edges of your selection