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48 Project 1: Composite Movie AdCopy and Paste Selected PixelsIn addition to dragging an entire layer with the Move tool, you can also use a variety of selection tools to choose only certain areas of a layer that will be copied. In this exercise, you use the most basic selection tool %u2014 the Rectangular 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.By default, dragging with a marquee tool creates a new selection. The buttons on the left end of the Options bar define what happens if you draw more than one marquee.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 new marquee area 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 top-left corner, drag down past the bottom edge of the image, and drag right to create a selection area that is approximately 8.5%u02dd wide.You can%u2019t select an area larger than the current canvas, so the top, left, and bottom edges of the selection snap to the canvas edges. The live cursor feedback, as well as the mark on the horizontal ruler, help to determine the selection area%u2019s width. Selection marqueeCursor feedback shows the size of the selection area you are drawing.Watch the videos Using Selection Tools in Photoshop, Parts 1 and 2 in your online student resources.A B C D E F G HNote:The edges of this image will be hidden by the bricks, so you don%u2019t need the full 8.75%u02dd width of the overall ad.Note:Press Shift while dragging a new marquee to constrain the selection to a square (using the Rectangular Marquee tool) or circle (using the Elliptical Marquee tool).
