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What is a selection?

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What is a selection?

- As you get started creating selections in Photoshop, I think it's worthwhile to consider the question, "What exactly is a selection?" I think most of us recognize, right from the start, that a selection represents selecting a particular portion of an image in Photoshop. And, generally speaking, that selection enables us then to apply some sort of change, some sort of effect, to the specific area that we've selected. But let's take a look at an example of a selection and get a better sense of what exactly a selection is. I'm looking at an image here of the sun at sunset, and if I wanted to create a selection, maybe I want to select that sun, for example, then I might create an elliptical selection, for example, or, theoretically, a circular selection. And I might place that selection directly over the sun. In other words, what I'm really doing here is saying to Photoshop, "This is the area "that I want to apply some sort of effect to. "This is the area that I want to select." In…

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