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The Elliptical Marquee tool

The Elliptical Marquee tool - Photoshop Tutorial

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The Elliptical Marquee tool

- The rectangular marquee tool in Photoshop, of course, enables you to create selections of rectangular shapes, but there is a related tool called the elliptical marquee tool, that enables you to create selections that, of course, have elliptical or even circular shapes. Let's take a look at that option. We'll start off by selecting the elliptical marquee tool and so I will click and hold my mouse, or you could also right click on the button for the rectangular marquee tool on the tool box. That will bring up a fly out menu where you can then select the elliptical marquee tool. Now the elliptical marquee tool behaves, essentially, identically to the rectangular marquee tool in terms of the overall operation of the tool, the options, the settings that are available for that tool. The only difference is that the result will be elliptical instead of rectangular. And in fact, if we take a look at the options, first off, we'll see that we have the same set of controls in terms of creating…

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