Hello, welcome to Knowledge City's course in Adobe Photoshop. My name is Jeff Dreilowitz and today I will be teaching you about the Move Tool, Marquee Tools and the Selection Tools you have at your disposal. Let's get started. So we're looking over at our toolbar here on the left side of our screen and we're going to start with the Move Tool. Pretty self -explanatory, it does exactly what it sounds like it should do. It moves whatever you press and click on. Let me put that back into place, remember Command Z can undo. Moving down, we have got our Marquee Tools. We have Rectangular, Elliptical, Single Row, Single Column. And again, M is the keyboard shortcut for that. So the Rectangular Marquee allows me to just make a rectangle or a square and to select around something. So I can select around this building and I can delete it if I want. The Elliptical Marquee Tool acts in the same exact way. I can make a circle and I can say, go to Edit and fill it in with a color if that's what I wish. Our Single Row Marquee Tools let us make lines. So I can click here, make a line across, again, go to Edit, pick Fill. I've got black as my content right now, filled it in with a black line, you'll notice it there. I can also make a number of lines going across here at one time. If you look at the top of your screen here, I've got different selection options. So the next one lets me combine the layers. So I can make one here, another one, another one, and so on. And when I do Edit and Fill, it'll fill all of them. Again, Command D will deselect that. So now we've got our Lasso Tools. Start off with, you've got your basic Lasso Tool. This one is more of a free form. It's whatever your hand can select. So this one is subject to human error a lot more than the other ones are because this is just you doing your best to select around something. So if I wanted to select this little building over here in between the other ones, I have to be very careful and make very straight lines because it's going to be difficult to do so. As you can see, once you reach the end, you close it up, we've got our shape. I can then use my Move Tool to pull it out of there if that's what I'd like. Let me deselect that. The other options in here though, you've got the Polygon Lasso Tool. Now this gives you a little more control. So with this one, you're going to click one time and you'll notice it almost works around kind of like a lever. So I'm not clicking, I'm just dragging the mouse. So I'm going to pull this one up to the top of my building here and click one time. That sets a new, we'll call it lever point. I'm going to keep clicking and working my way around the curve. Work my way to the other side of that rooftop. Come down to the bottom and again, this is great for angled shapes. I'm going to come across, come down. You see that circle next to my cursor indicates that it's going to be a closed shape now. So when I click that, my shape is closed. It's all set. So I could then go ahead and let's do Command T and shrink the building down. Now that's going to pull it out of the background, so I'd have to fill that in. But as you can see, I can resize what I've selected in there. Hit Return to close off. Hit Command D to deselect. But let's undo that and put it back to its original state. Lastly, we've got the Magnetic Lasso Tool. This is an older tool in Photoshop, so you might not be using it as often. But what it does is it tries to read what it is you want to be selecting based on your proximity to it. So you can see all those little points where it's attaching itself to the roof of the building. I can click and lay down points as well. The problem comes if you go a little too fast with it and when you reach other obstructing objects. So with this other building, it's going to be a little tricky. I've got to go very slow, work my way across at the bottom, and then try to work my way back up to the top. Texture gets a little funky with this one. As you can see, it's kind of pulling its way into the bricks. And we've got a selection. I'd have to go back in there and possibly add to it. And that's where this comes into play here, the combined shape. And what's great about the selection tools is you can use them all in combination with each other. So I could choose the polygon lasso tool. And as long as I have combined shape selected, I can come over here and select that area that I missed. I don't even have to be on it. I can kind of just go around it and it will add it to my selection. Now if there's something I didn't want, I could do subtract shape. And if I wanted to get rid of the bottom portion of this building, I could stretch across, come down, and I don't have to be on the line. I just have to be around it. Again, you see the circle letting me know that I've closed my shape. I click and there we go. I made my selection. It's nice and clean. And I can do with it whatever I need to, whether I want to remove it or recolor it or place it somewhere else. We've got options here. Command D will deselect that. Moving on to a different image. Now we have got our other selection tools, the object selection. W chooses that. So with the object selection tool, what it is trying to intuitively do is figure out where the subject of this picture is. When I click and drag over it, you'll see the selection is made. The pink indicates the background or the subject. I can do Command C and Command V to copy it. As you can see now, my coffee is in its own separate layer by itself. The next option here would be quick selection. This acts more of a selection brush. You can see I've got options up here to add to it, combine it, to remove some, to change the size of the brush. So with this one, I'm going to just select around kind of gently. Don't want to move too quick, but there we go. It's got it selected. I can do Command C, Command V, pop it out on its own. Now it's not perfect, so I'd have to go in there and make sure any areas that might not have enough contrast need to be adjusted, need to be added to. The other option is if I want to choose this and remove a section. So let's say, well actually let me fix up the end of this before I do it, make it look cleaner. I want to do the best possible work here. Now I want to remove a little bit, so I'm going to choose the minus button here. Let's fix that little edge at the bottom. Let's say I want to take the coffee part out of here. So this is where I can increase the size of my brush a little bit, and I can brush through the area with the coffee, you know, carefully, because it does want to find all colors and tones that match what you're selecting. And if I do Command C and Command V again, I've got it popped out of the background in its own layer, minus the coffee this time. Lastly, we have got our magic wand tool. Going back to our rooftop. Magic wand works best with solid colors. So if I want to select my sky, you'll notice it got a little more than I wanted it to. It got some of those windows. I don't want those windows in there. So I'm going to deselect that, and tolerance right here, that number determines how much it is going to choose. So I'm going to drop it down to 20 instead of 32, 32 is a default, and click again. It didn't get enough that time. So I'm going to go through and try 25. There's the magic number. Got exactly what I wanted. So now I can take my sky, and I could go to edit, choose fill, and put a color in there. Now it looks like it's night. Obviously to do that, we do a lot more steps to make something legitimately look like it's nighttime, but you can see that I can fill in that space that I have selected. And again, Command Z will undo, Command D will deselect my selections, and that is all for our selection tools, and for those first few tools in the toolbar. In the next lesson, we'll learn about the paint bucket and gradient tools, as well as setting up the ruler and guides. Thank you for watching.
