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Adobe Photoshop CS4 Marquee tools
Marquee tools are used to select or mark out areas of an image. You can learn more about the various Photoshop Tools on our Photoshop Training Course.
The four Photoshop marquee tools are grouped together in the toolbar. To pick the one you want, click on the icon showing in the toolbar, and select the one you want from the pop-up menu.
- Holding shift when you drw a rectangle or ellipse will constrain the selection to a perfect square or circle.
- Holding down Alt as you drag a new selection, will allow you to draw outward from that point.
- Pressing the Shift key while a selection is already active will allow you to add more areas to the existing selection.
- Pressing Alt while a selection outline already exists will allow you to subtract areas from the existing selection.
To move a selection outline after you have completed it, make sure you have the New Selection option selected on the options bar. Then place the pointer inside the selection outline, and drag. You can also use the arrow keys on your keyboard to nudge the selection outline into place. To move the contents of a selection, use the move tool.
The keyboard shortcut for these tools is the letter M. Holding down the Shift key while pressing M will toggle between the rectangular and elliptical marquee tool.
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Hipolito M. Wiseman (baby video monitors) says:
I’ve been using Photoshop CS2 for some time now, really feel like getting the newer CS4. Reading the posts and tutorials makes me even more keen to upgrade. I’m a kind of a noob when it comes to learning a new program. Is there a major difference between the 2 programs, or can I easily start using CS4 as I’ve used CS2 before?
2. 2. 2010 at 4:37 am
Colin Welch says:
Hi Hipolito,
The basics of Photoshop aren’t massively different between CS2 and CS4, so you won’t have a hard time getting up to speed with the new features in CS4 when you upgrade.
By the way, CS5 is rumoured to be coming out in April 2010 and there are some even more exciting new features in Photoshop CS5 – you can read about them on our blog here: http://www.siliconbeachtraining.co.uk/blog/whats-new-photoshop-cs5/
2. 2. 2010 at 8:40 am