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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. 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 8.53 wide. Note:
You can’t select an area larger than the current canvas, so the top, left, and bottom The edges of this image
edges of the selection snap to the canvas edges. The live cursor feedback, as well as the will be hidden by the
mark on the horizontal ruler, help to determine the selection area’s width. bricks, so you don’t need
the full 8.753 width of
the overall ad.

Note:

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

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