Adobe 23101335 User Guide - Page 157
Softening the edges of a selection, Adjusting selections manually
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ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 147 User Guide To select the unselected parts of an image: Choose Select > Inverse. You can use this option to select an object placed against a solid-colored background. Select the background using the magic wand tool and then inverse the selection. Adjusting selections manually You can use the selection tools to add to or subtract from existing pixel selections. Before manually adding to or subtracting from a selection, set the feather and anti-aliased values in the options bar to the same settings used for the original selection. (See "Softening the edges of a selection" on page 147.) To adjust selections numerically, see "Adjusting selections numerically" in online Help. To add to a selection or select an additional area: 1 Make a selection. 2 Using any selection tool, do one of the following: • Select the Add to Selection option ( ) in the options bar, and drag. • Hold down Shift (a plus sign appears next to the pointer), and drag to add another selection. To subtract from a selection: 1 Make a selection. 2 Using any selection tool, do one of the following: • Select the Subtract from Selection option ( ) in the options bar, and drag to intersect with other selections. • Hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) (a minus sign appears next to the pointer), and drag to subtract another selection. To select only an area intersected by other selections: 1 Make a selection. 2 Using any selection tool, do one of the following: • Select the Restrict Selection option ( ) in the options bar, and drag. • Hold down Alt+Shift (Windows) or Option+Shift (Mac OS) (a cross appears next to the pointer), and drag over the portion of the original selection that you want to select. Softening the edges of a selection You can smooth the hard edges of a selection by anti-aliasing and by feathering. Anti-aliasing Smooths the jagged edges of a selection by softening the color transition between edge pixels and background pixels. Since only the edge pixels change, no detail is lost. Anti-aliasing is useful when cutting, copying, and pasting selections to create composite images.