From the course: Photoshop for iPad: Photoshop Compositing
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Using the Selection tool - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop for iPad: Photoshop Compositing
Using the Selection tool
- [Instructor] Photoshop for iPad has a basic set of selection tools, but it's important to understand how they can interact. If we tap on the selection tool and hold then we get all the other selection tools. Let's choose the marquee tool and as we drag on the canvas, this draws from corner to corner. With the selection method set to add to your selection, where we draw now, it'll add to the previous selection as expected. If you hold down the touch shortcut button, then it constrains a rectangular marquee to a square. Let's switch to the elliptical marquee tool. We'll make sure that this tool is also set to add to our selection, and we'll start drawing again. Once again, if we hold the shortcut button, we constrain that ellipse to a perfect circle. But if we tap and drag to the side to get the secondary shortcut, we now draw from the center out. If we change the mode to the subtract from the selection by…
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