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5. Click inside the selection marquee and drag it to the approximate center
of the image.
When the New Selection option is active, you can move a selection marquee by
clicking inside the selected area with the Marquee tool, and dragging to the desired Note:
area of the image.
If you want to move
The live cursor feedback shows how far you have moved the area.
a marquee, make sure
the Marquee tool is still
selected. If the Move tool
The Marquee
tool is still active. is active, clicking inside
the marquee and drag-
“Marching ants” ging will actually move
identify the the contents within the
selected area.
selection area.

Note:

When creating a new se-
Click inside the lection with a marquee
marquee and drag
to reposition it. tool, pressing Option/Alt
places the center of the
selection marquee at the
point where you click;
6. In the Options bar, choose the Subtract from Selection option. when you drag out,
the marquee is created
7. Click near the waterline at the left edge of the existing selection. Drag
down past the bottom edge of the image, and right past the right edge of around that point.
the existing selection.
Note:
Subtract from Press Shift to add to, or
Selection is active.
Option/Alt to subtract
from, the current selec-
tion.

Click here...
...and drag to here.
The cursor shows a
minus sign because you
are subtracting from
the existing selection.

You only want the city to appear in the ad, so you don’t need the water area of
this image. When you release the mouse button, the selection is the area of the
first marquee, minus the area of the second marquee. (This two-step process isn’t
particularly necessary in this case, but you should know how to add to, and subtract
from selections.)

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