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The Rectangular Marquee tool

The Rectangular Marquee tool - Photoshop Tutorial

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The Rectangular Marquee tool

- Among the selection tools in Photoshop, one of the simplest, both in terms of how you use it and the shape of the selections you can create, is the rectangular marquee tool. It is designed, as its name implies, to create selections of a rectangular shape. That makes it not the most useful tool, but still, a selection tool that can be helpful in a variety of situations. Here I have an image that conveniently contains a variety of rectangular shapes and so we can use that as a basis of some experimentation, if you will, with the rectangular marquee tool. The first step is to actually select the rectangular marquee tool from the toolbox. I can click on the button for the rectangular marquee tool. That is the button that has the icon in the shape of a rectangular selection. Easy enough. Note, by the way, that there are also a few other selection tools there. If I click and hold the mouse or if I right click on the button for the rectangular marquee tool, I will find a fly out menu with…

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