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The image will open in Photoshop with the name of the file appearing in the Title tab of the
document currently being worked upon.
SELECTION TOOLS
Selection tools are used to select
those areas of an image that we Subject: Resize the canvas
wish to modify. A selection isolates To resize the canvas, click on the Image menu
a part of an image so that we can Canvas Size option type desired size of the
work on the highlighted area only canvas click on OK button.
without affecting the rest of the
image. Photoshop provides us
with different types of selection tools, let us take a look at how these tools work.
RECTANGULAR MARQUEE TOOL
This tool is used to make a rectangular selection. The tool includes Rectangular Marquee tool,
Elliptical Marquee tool, Single Row Marquee tool and Single Column Marquee tool.
To select an image using the Marquee tool, follow the given steps:
2 From the list, select the shape of the tool you want for selecting an
object. For example, here we are selecting a rectangular Marquee tool.
1 Right-click on
the arrow next to
the Rectangular
Marquee tool.
3 Click and drag the mouse
pointer over the part of the
image you want to select.
The image gets selected and the area inside the animated
border represents your selection.
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