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8. Click the bottle.jpg window to activate that file. If you can’t see the entire
bottle, zoom out until you can.
Note:
9. Choose the Rectangular Marquee tool in the Tools panel.
Use the marquee tools
In addition to dragging entire layers into other files, you can also select specific areas of a to create simple-shape
file to copy using one of the selection tools.
selections such as
rectangular, elliptical,
10. Using the Rectangular Marquee tool, click in the bottle.jpg window and single row of pixels, or a
drag around the entire shape of the bottle.
single column of pixels.
By default, dragging with the selection tool creates a new selection. You can use the
buttons on the left end of the Options bar to add to the current selection, subtract from
the current selection, or intersect with the current selection. Note:
Marching ants is an
industry term for the
Rectangular animated edge of an
Marquee tool active selection marquee.

Note:
“Marching ants”
indicate the Press Shift while
selected area. dragging a new marquee
to constrain the selection
to a square (using the
11. Click the Subtract From Selection button on the Options bar. Rectangular Marquee
When one of the marquee tools is selected, the Options bar gives you better control over tool) or circle (using the
what you are selecting. Elliptical Marquee tool).

New Add to Subtract from Intersect
Selection Selection Selection Selections
Note:
When using one of the
selection tools, press Shift
Access saved Feather (soften) the Choose a normal Control precise before dragging to add
presets for the edges of a selection selection, a fixed-ratio attributes of the
selected tool by a specified selection, or a selection edge to the current selection,
number of pixels fixed-size selection or press Option/Alt to
subtract from the current
12. Drag a new marquee that overlaps the upper corner of the first selection but selection.
doesn’t include any part of the bottle.
When you release the mouse button, the selection is the area of the first marquee, minus
the area of the second marquee. (This isn’t particularly necessary in this case, but you
should know how to add to and subtract from selections.)

New selection

Subtract from
Selection cursor

Existing selection
from Step 10

13. Choose Edit>Copy.

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