Photoshop gives some of the amazing tools like quick selection tool pen, magic wand tool, Marquee tool, etc. With these, one can play around with the images and edit in the desired manner! Marquee tool is a tool which helps the user to edit or add the effect in a particular area, selected through it.
USE OF “SELECTION”
Resize:
Once the selection is made, the area selected can be resized or can undergo a transformation. To do so, opt edit followed by transform and lastly wrap. Once the wrap tool is chosen, the dimensions can be changed easily.
The image in left has an eye smaller than that of the one on the right. This is when the wrap tool comes into action with the help of which the size of the eyes was resized but, after using the wrap tool selection also gets distorted.
FREE MOVEMENT:
One can play around with the selected portion of the image. One can copy and paste it on another image or overlapped on the same image but at a different position. Copy-pasting can be done using ctrl+C/cmd+C and to paste it back into the original image/document, ctrl+V/cmd+V could be used.
FILL WITH COLOUR:
One enjoys the full freedom of filling it with any colour of choice after selecting a custom portion of the image. Press shift+F5 or edit and fill to change the foreground colour as per the requirement.
ADD BORDER:
A border can be added to the selection by choosing edit and then stroke and also fill the stroke dialogue box as per the requirement. The above image has a width of 1 pixel and black as the colour. Inside location means nothing but the border lies inside the selected region and vice-versa.
RECTANGULAR AND ELLIPTICAL MARQUEE TOOL
There is no difference between both the marquee tools except for their shape. For easy understanding let’s choose one of them to say, elliptical marquee tool, which can be selected from left tool panel by pressing shift+M repeatedly until it appears after which the cursor turns into the plus sign(+).
Drag and drop the elliptical selection as shown in the image. To use move tool go-to tool panel or simply press V. To move the selection in the midway of selection press and hold the spacebar. Once the area has been inverted by pressing, ctrl+shift+l/cmd+shift+l, this will select the entire portion which was not selected earlier. Press alt+backspace/opt+delete to make black as the foreground colour.
The options panel will show up only if there is any selection that has been done except for pen tool. The functions of the same are listed below:
New selection: This aids in the new selection. To deselect press ctrl+D/cmd+D, which also forms the new area.
Add to selection: Multiple areas can be selected using this function. Press shift key which will turn the cursor to small plus sign (+).
Subtract from the selection: It simply deselects it for which press and holds alt/opts which will enable a minus sign (-) in place of the cursor.
Intersect with the selection: The overlapped areas of different selections are chosen using this function by pressing shift+alt/shift+opt.
Feather: This function helps to soften the edges of the selected region which belongs to the refine edge tool.
Style: 1. NORMAL- denotes default mode.
- FIXED RATIO- activates the width and height.
- FIXED SIZE- works hand in hand with the fixed ratio. Irrespective of change or dragging, only the selected region’s dimension will be considered.
Refine Edge: Versatile tool
Anti-Alias: The selection softens but the degree of softening cannot be controlled but would be advised to keep it on for sharp selections.
Marquee tool is a tool which helps the user to edit or add the effect in a particular area, selected through it. So with fundamentals above, one can easily transform images!
