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Using the Elliptical Marquee tool - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Introducing Photoshop
Using the Elliptical Marquee tool
- [Instructor] All right, now that we've reviewed one of the marquee tools, we're going to take a look at the other one, which is the elliptical marquee. And so, I'll go ahead and switch over to this image right here, which once again, contains an element from the Dreamstime image library. Specifically, this magnifying glass. All right, so what you want to do is go ahead and click and hold on the second tool down, up here at the top of the toolbox. And then choose the Elliptical Marquee tool from the fly-out menu. All right, next, I'll go over here to the Layers panel and turn off the Dreamstime layer, because that URL is not actually part of this design. And so notice that we have this magnifying glass that interrupts this capital letter P. What I want to do is select this region inside the magnifying glass, and make the top left corner of the P larger, so it appears magnified by the magnifying glass. And so notice over…
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Using the Rectangular Marquee tool8m 24s
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Using the Elliptical Marquee tool5m 25s
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Freeform and straight-sided lassos4m 47s
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The Select > Subject command2m 30s
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Pasting a selection in place1m 40s
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Using the Object Selection tool2m 12s
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Converting a selection to a layer mask2m 38s
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Refining a layer mask2m 59s
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