Photoshop Tutorial: How To Use The Marquee Tool?

This tut or tip is very useful if you are a digital scrapper or if you simply want to post process or edit your photographs in Photoshop. Well, just like everybody on their first time, Photoshop appeared so complex to me with the buttons everywhere and all. Anyway, here’s one tip you can use for future reference. Thanks to Designer Digitals for this mini-tut.


ALL ABOUT THE MARQUEE TOOL
The Marquee tools in Photoshop and PSE allow you to create rectangular, square, circular and elliptical selections. Find the Marquee Tools by pressing the letter M on your keyboard or locating the Marquee tool icon near the top of the Toolbar.

When you are using the Rectangular Marquee tool, holding the Shift key gives you a perfectly square selection. Holding the Alt key (Mac: Opt key) forces the Marquee tool to draw from the center outward.

So holding the Shift + Alt keys (Mac: Shift + Opt keys) draws a perfect square from the center outward. Be sure to hold the shift key before pressing the Alt (Opt) key.

In Photoshop, holding the Shift key with the Elliptical Marquee tool gives you a perfect circle selection. Holding the Alt key (Mac: Opt key) forces the Marquee tool to draw from the center outward.

So Holding the Shift + Alt keys (Mac: Shift + Opt keys) draws a perfect circle from the center outward.

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