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The Object Selection tool allows Photoshop to make a selection based on what it determines
to be the “object” of the photo. This tool does a remarkably good job creating an initial selection,
which you can then modify and fine-tune to create the exact selection you need.
If the Object Finder checkbox is active in the Object Selection
Options bar, moving the tool cursor over an area tool cursor
of the image reveals a blue overlay that identifies
the “object” that would be selected by clicking.
When the Object Selection tool is active, you
have a number of choices in the Options menu:
• By default, the Object Finder
automatically refreshes as you work.
If this option is turned off in the Set
Additional Options menu, you can
click the Refresh Object Finder ( )
to manually refresh the object finder.

• Clicking the Show All Objects ( )
button reveals all “objects” that the
software identifies on the active layer.

• You can click the Set Additional Options ( ) button to turn off automatic Note:
refresh, change the color of the object overlay, and determine when the overlay When any of the Selec-
is visible (automatically, always, or never).
tion tools are active,
• If you turn off the Object Select checkbox, you can draw a specific selection area you can click the Select
to define the area you want the software to evaluate. In the Mode menu, choose Subject button in the
a Rectangle or Lasso in the Options bar Mode menu to determine what type of Options bar to cause
selection you want to draw. Photoshop to analyze the
entire layer instead of
• Finally, you can check or uncheck the Hard Edge option to determine whether only a specific, selected
the resulting selection will have a hard or soft (feathered) edge.
area.

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