Elliptical marquee tool elements 9

Drag from the center out The center is where you place the cursor. Press and hold Alt, to draw the marquee from the center, outward. You can combine Alt with Shift to draw a square from the center.

Move the marquee Use the arrow keys to move the marquee. Or, click inside the marquee, hold, and drag it. Feather the marquee In the options, you can choose to feather the marquee. Change the size of the marquee There are two methods. Click the green checkmark. Check the dimensions of the marquee Open the Info panel to see the exact dimensions of the marquee. Look for W and H. Rotate the marquee There are two methods. Method 1 Select the Move tool. Place the cursor in the area outside the marquee.

The cursor will change to a curved, two-sided, arrow. Click the green check mark. Next You have a selection. Whatever happens next, happens only inside the selection. Buy now. User Guide Cancel. Make it. Select a marquee tool:. Specify one of the selection options in the options bar. Determines marquee proportions by dragging. Fixed Ratio. Fixed Size. Enter pixel values in whole numbers. For aligning your selection to guides, a grid, slices, or document bounds, do one of the following to snap your selection:.

The marquee selection can snap to a document boundary or to a variety of Photoshop Extras, controlled in the Snap To submenu. Do one of the following to make a selection:. With the Rectangular Marquee tool or the Elliptical Marquee tool, drag over the area you want to select. Select the Elliptical Marquee tool M from the toolbar. Select the marquee tool in the Photoshop toolbar. To access the four options of the marquee, hold the left mouse key down on the tool, and select one of the additional options from the pop-up menu.

You can also use the keyboard command M to switch to the marquee tool. The Elliptical Marquee Tool is the tool of choice for selecting moons, planets and other round celestial bodies. To reposition a rectangular or elliptical marquee, first drag to create the selection border, keeping the mouse button depressed. Then hold down the spacebar and continue to drag. Release the spacebar, but keep the mouse button depressed, if you need to continue adjusting the selection border.

With either the direct selection or path selection tool, hold option alt and drag to duplicate the path rinse and repeat.

Select the Rectangular Marquee tool from the Tools panel. You can also use the keyboard shortcut — press the M key. Click and drag from one corner of the area that you want to select to the opposite corner. While you drag, the selection marquee appears. If you hold down the shift key while dragging, it will make a perfect circle instead of an oval. A dotted line will appear showing that you have selected that area.