© The Author(s), under exclusive license to APress Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2022
J. HarderAccurate Layer Selections Using Photoshop’s Selection Toolshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7493-4_3

3. Basic Marquee Tools

Jennifer Harder1  
(1)
Delta, BC, Canada
 

In this chapter, you learn how to use the basic marquee tools. Let’s start by making selections in Photoshop. You can find the projects for this chapter in the Chapter 3 folder.

The marquee tools are in the Tools panel. Refer to Figure 3-1.
../images/518514_1_En_3_Chapter/518514_1_En_3_Fig1_HTML.jpg
Figure 3-1

Basic marquee tools

There are four basic marquee tools.

  • Rectangular Marquee tool (M)

  • Elliptical Marquee tool (M)

  • Single Row Marquee tool

  • Single Column ...

Get Accurate Layer Selections Using Photoshop’s Selection Tools: Use Photoshop and Illustrator to Refine Your Artwork now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.

Start your free trial