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Using the Object Selection tool

Using the Object Selection tool - Photoshop Tutorial

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Using the Object Selection tool

- [Instructor] All right, now, let's take a look at the most recent of the automated selection tools. And that's this guy right here, the object selection tool. I want you to notice that all of these tools have a keyboard shortcut of w for the wand tool. And so you can switch between them by pressing shift w. In any event, I'll grab the object selection tool which allows you to select a region of a photograph just by drawing a rectangle or a lasso around it. And so by default, the mode up here in the options bar is set to rectangle. At which point let's say I decided to drag around the eye. I end up getting just the weirdest selection possible and that's because the moon layer is currently active here inside the layers panel. And because the sample layers checkbox is turned off the object selection tool is only seeing that moon layer. And so if we want to select the eye, you need to click on the background like, so, and then…

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