Week 5...Introduction to Selections

Creating Selections

We often see the world as many separate objects, while Photoshop only sees it as colored pixels. We need a way to work on these pixels here, but not those pixels there. Creating selections is how we tell Photoshop which pixels we want to work on.

Here's a useful article explaining why creating selections is important.

Below you'll find a list of the selection methods we looked at in class and tutorials to help explain them further.

Rectangular and elliptical marquee tool
Lasso and polygonal tool
Color Range
Magic Wand

Free Transform Tool
Please see this tutorial to review the free transform tool.

Homework

Make isolated selections of all items photographed on a separate layer. Include a contrasting solid color layer below it in the PSD.

Please save the paths used in your PSD under the Paths tab.