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Using the Object Selection tool

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Using the Object Selection tool

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- [Instructor] All right, now I'm going to show you a variation on the select subject command, which is known as the object selection tool. And so notice if I were to go up to the select menu and choose the subject command that I ended up selecting both of the models inside this photograph, as well as a little bit of the slash, because once again, I have the Dreamstime layer selected. But let's say what I want to do instead is just select one of the models. In that case, I'll go up to the select menu and choose the de-select command, which has a handy keyboard shortcut of Control + D here on a PC or Command + D on the Mac. And I'm going to go ahead and press the Backspace key or the Delete key on the Mac to get rid of that Dreamstime layer. And then I'll drop down to the tool below the lasso tool, which is the object selection tool. If you're not seeing it, click and hold on that tool and select the object selection…

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