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Selecting an elliptical object - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop One-on-One: Fundamentals
Selecting an elliptical object
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- All right now, it's easy to look at the geometric selection tools, the rectangular marquee and the elliptical marquee as downright primitive. But in fact, they're very useful. Consider for example, that the rectangular marquee tool is selected by default. Every time you launch Photoshop. Also consider that many things in nature are elliptical. Which is why we're going to use the elliptical marquee tool. To take this moonshot, that I captured with a 400 millimeter fixed lens and a two X extender. So a focal length of 800 millimeters, and we're going to set it against this eclipse that I also captured same setup back in 2017 in Alliance Nebraska. And we're going to end up creating this composition here. Again, armed only with the elliptical marquee tool. All right. So we'll go ahead and switch over to this guy. And I'll also switch over to the elliptical marquee tool. So I can show you a few tricks that work with…
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Contents
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Let me show you around1m 30s
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Zooming in and out6m 34s
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Using the more precise Zoom tool6m 47s
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Reassigning Spotlight and Siri (Mac only)3m 34s
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Five ways to zoom continuously4m 40s
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Scrolling (or panning)3m 12s
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Bird's eye and other scrolling tricks5m 19s
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Switching between open images5m 23s
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Cycling between screen modes7m 4s
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Using the Navigator panel6m 36s
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Panels and workspace: Do not skip5m 40s
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Resetting and updating workspaces3m 40s
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A few important preferences8m 23s
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The layered composition1m 42s
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Introducing the Layers panel5m 18s
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Converting the flat Background to a layer4m 54s
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Jumping an image onto a new layer3m 28s
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Flipping and scaling a layer2m 53s
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Adding a vector-based layer2m 11s
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Creating a basic layer mask6m 15s
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Clipping one layer inside another4m 3s
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Merging two layers into one4m 58s
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Auto Select and the Move tool3m 41s
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Inverting a layer mask4m 51s
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Adding depth with layer effects4m 9s
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Softening a mask with Feather2m 47s
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Three ways to copy and paste layers4m 54s
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Auto-zooming one or more layers2m 38s
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The many ways to save2m 1s
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Five essential things to know about saving8m 17s
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Revert, autosave, and more5m 29s
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Saving layers to the native PSD format4m 43s
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The Maximize Compatibility option3m 2s
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Saving a flat print image to TIFF6m 13s
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Saving an interactive image to PNG4m 1s
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Saving a flat photograph to JPEG5m 40s
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Saving a cloud-based PSDC file2m 57s
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Introducing luminance1m 43s
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How luminance works6m 24s
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The three auto commands4m 31s
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Auto-correcting photographs4m 21s
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Auto Brightness/Contrast4m 19s
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Custom Brightness/Contrast5m 22s
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Applying a dynamic adjustment layer7m
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Adjustment layer tips and tricks5m 1s
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Adjustment layers and blend modes5m 25s
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Introducing the histogram4m 44s
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Putting the histogram to use4m 46s
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Isolating an adjustment with a layer mask4m 29s
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Color cast versus color harmony1m 29s
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Identifying the color cast of a photo4m 12s
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Correcting a color cast automatically3m 41s
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Using the Color Balance command5m 28s
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Revisiting the last-applied settings2m 42s
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Correcting white balance in Camera Raw6m 15s
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When Camera Raw disappoints3m 57s
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Adjusting a color cast with Photo Filter5m 36s
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Applying Auto Color nondestructively4m 46s
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Introducing Camera Raw2m 8s
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Camera Raw basics4m 58s
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Working with a developed image5m 24s
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Zooming and panning4m 48s
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Working with panels5m 58s
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Capture raw, convert to DNG5m 12s
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Correcting for lens distortion5m 51s
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Removing chromatic aberration4m 25s
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Exposure and Contrast6m 12s
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Highlights, shadows, whites, and blacks5m 8s
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Working with Texture, Clarity, and Dehaze6m 53s
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Opening and editing multiple images4m 54s
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The real purpose of the White Balance tool2m 7s
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Camera Raw tricks and tips3m 32s
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Hue, Saturation, and "Vibrance"2m 4s
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Color = Hue + Saturation3m 49s
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How Vibrance works8m 29s
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Adjusting Vibrance in Photoshop4m 42s
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Deleting color sample markers1m 29s
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Adjusting Vibrance in Camera Raw3m 42s
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Introducing Hue/Saturation5m 17s
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Using the Targeted Adjustment tool4m 18s
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Selectively adjusting colors in Camera Raw5m 5s
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Isolating a color range in Camera Raw2m 48s
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The selective power of Photoshop1m 26s
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Selection and Move tool basics5m 32s
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Selecting an elliptical object4m 41s
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Using the Paste Into command4m 52s
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Using the Copy Merged command3m 38s
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Add, subtract, and intersect selections4m 25s
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Using the Magic Wand tool6m 15s
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Using the three Lasso tools5m 4s
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Painting with the Quick Selection tool4m 40s
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Using the Object Selection tool5m 30s
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Too many pixels1m 39s
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Introducing Photoshop’s Crop tool2m 52s
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Cropping without deleting any pixels3m 45s
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Aspect ratio and other tricks5m 5s
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Working with the reference point3m 31s
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Finessing a crop with Canvas Size4m 58s
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Using Content-Aware Crop2m 38s
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Two ways to use the Straighten tool4m 6s
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Straightening with the Ruler tool2m 57s
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Cropping away all transparent pixels5m 9s
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Cropping and straightening in Camera Raw5m 24s
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Using the Perspective Crop tool3m 4s
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Cropping everything outside the canvas3m 13s
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Learning to paint52s
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Introducing the Brush tool4m 59s
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Painting pressure-sensitive brushstrokes4m 55s
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Changing the size and hardness on-the-fly3m 51s
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Previewing size and hardness2m 39s
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Opacity versus Flow5m 22s
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Erasing with the tilde key1m 47s
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Roundness, Angle, and the arrow keys4m 8s
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Using the Smoothing options5m 18s
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Painting with automated symmetry3m 31s
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Rotating and resetting your view2m 24s
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Using an iPad as a sidecar tablet6m 49s
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Your best face forward1m 6s
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Using the Spot Healing Brush3m 59s
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Healing to an independent layer3m 9s
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Using the standard Healing Brush5m 41s
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Using the Clone Source panel4m 54s
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Rotating the source pixels5m 39s
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Restoring blown highlights5m 41s
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Using the Patch tool4m 2s
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Shift-clicking to heal in straight lines3m 24s
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The Dodge and Sponge tools to whiten teeth4m 7s
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The Camera Raw Spot Removal tool5m 31s
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How digital images work1m 40s
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Image size and resolution5m 36s
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Introducing the Image Size command8m 25s
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Common resolution standards8m 48s
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Upsampling vs. real high-resolution data6m 48s
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Changing the print resolution7m 58s
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Downsampling for print6m 8s
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Downsampling for email and photo sharing9m 28s
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The seven interpolation settings7m 32s
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Real-world rules for downsampling8m 25s
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Upsampling with Preserve Details 2.010m 47s
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Print from RGB, not CMYK3m 9s
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Using my customizable printer test file4m 26s
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The Print command and color management5m 16s
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Print size and position5m 45s
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Using printer-specific options on the PC6m 57s
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Using printer-specific options on the Mac7m 37s
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Brightening your image for print7m 4s
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Description and printing marks5m 16s
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Establishing a borderless bleed5m 38s
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Free-range images1m 41s
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Assigning copyright and contact info5m 37s
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Copyrighting multiple images at a time6m 11s
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How color works on the web7m 43s
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Quick Export as PNG5m 34s
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Quick Export as JPEG4m 17s
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Introducing the old-school Save for Web5m 35s
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Saving an 8-bit GIF or PNG6m 59s
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Saving an animated GIF file4m 36s
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Exporting vector-based layers as SVG4m 38s
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Exporting multiple layers and groups6m 51s
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