How to use the Marquee Tool in Photoshop

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The marquee tool in Photoshop is a selector tool that has a lot of great features. Often dismissed, the marquee tool simply doesn’t get it’s due. Versatile and fast, the marquee is used to pick out different sections of a photo as per the user’s parameters.



Time: A few seconds

Materials:
A digital photo
A computer with Photoshop installed

Method








Tip: The rectangle tool and elliptical tool are the most popular shapes for the marquee. A quick way to switch between the two shapes is to hold down the shift button and hitting the letter m.


Tip: When using the rectangular marquee, you can make the rectangle a perfect square by using the shift button.


You can expand your selection using multiples of the same shape by holding down the shift button and dragging, as illustrated below.



You can remove part of your selection using the same method, except instead of holding down the shift key, you would hold down the Alt key in Windows or the Option key in Mac OSx.

Small snippets of your selection can be singled out by holding down both the shift and alt/option.

Tip: If you don’t like using shortcuts like the shift key, then you can use the Selection Boxes in the Options Panel.

Using the marquee tool is a great way to move a selected part of a photo onto another area of the photo.



You can also pull selections into a new image, or onto a new canvas.


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