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CoPy And PAste seleCted Pixels
In the previous exercise, you used the Move tool to drag an entire layer. You can
also use a variety of selection tools to choose only certain areas of a layer that will be
moved. In this exercise, you will use the most basic selection tool — the Rectangle
Marquee tool.
1. With aftermath.psd open, choose View>Fit on Screen to show the entire
image centered in the document window.

2. Open the file Skyline.jpg from your WIP>Movie folder.

3. Choose the Rectangular Marquee tool in the Tools panel and review the
options in the Options bar.
A B C D E F G H
By default, dragging with a marquee
tool creates a new selection. You can
use the buttons on the left end of the
Options bar to define what happens Rectangular
if you draw more than one marquee. Marquee tool
A. New Selection creates a new selection each time you create a new marquee.
B. Add to Selection adds the area of a new marquee to the existing selected area.
C. Subtract from Selection removes the area of a new marquee from the existing
selection.
D. Intersect with Selection results in a selection only where a new marquee overlaps
an existing selection.
E. Feather (soften) the edges of a selection by a specified number of pixels.
F. Choose a normal selection, a fixed-ratio selection, or a fixed-size selection.
G. When Fixed Ratio or Fixed Size is selected, enter the size of the selection in the
Width and Height fields.
H. Click this button to reverse the Width and Height fields.
4. Choose the New Selection option in the Options bar. Click outside of the Note:
top-left corner, drag down past the bottom edge of the image, and drag right
to create a selection area that is approximately 8.53 wide. The edges of this image
will be hidden by the
You can’t select an area larger than the current canvas, so the top, left, and bottom edges bricks, so you don’t need
of the selection snap to the canvas edges. The live cursor feedback, as well as the mark on the full 8.753 width of
the horizontal ruler, help to determine the selection area’s width.
the overall ad.

Note:

Selection Press Shift while
marquee dragging a new marquee
to constrain the selection
to a square (using the
Rectangular Marquee
Rectangular tool) or circle (using the
Marquee Elliptical Marquee tool).
tool cursor

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