Adobe Photoshop CC Classroom in a Book (2019 Release), First Edition

3 Working with Selections

PROJECT: SHADOWBOX COLLAGE

Learning how to select areas of an image is of primary importance—you must first select what you want to affect. As long as a selection is active, only the area within the selection can be edited.

Lesson overview

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

• Make specific areas of an image active using selection tools.

• Reposition a selection marquee.

• Move and duplicate the contents of a selection.

• Use keyboard-mouse combinations that save time and hand motions.

• Deselect a selection.

• Constrain the movement of a selected area.

• Adjust the position of a selected area using the arrow ...