REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES

REGION V (BICOL)
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Division of Camarines Sur
SALVACION NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Bato, Camarines Sur

The Rectangular Marquee Tool in Photoshop

You'll find the Rectangular Marquee Tool sitting at the very top of the Tools panel in Photoshop. It's the tool with the
icon that looks like the outline of a square. Click on it to select it:

Drawing Rectangular Selections

Using the Rectangular Marquee Tool in its most basic form is easy. You simply click with your mouse at the point
where you want to begin the selection, which will usually be in the top left corner of the object or area you need to select, then
continue holding your mouse button down as you drag towards the bottom right corner of the object or area. When you release
your mouse button, the selection is complete!

Here's a photo of some wooden blocks:

See that large red block in the top row? Let's say I wanted to change its
color, a very simple thing to do.
First, select the Rectangular Marquee Tool from the Tools panel
as we saw a moment ago. You can also select tools using their keyboard
shortcuts. Pressing the letter M on your keyboard will instantly select the
Rectangular Marquee Tool. Then, to begin the selection, I'll click in the
top left corner of the block. While still holding down my mouse button,
I'll drag towards the bottom right corner of the block:

Click in the top left corner to begin a selection, then

drag down to the bottom right corner. Release your mouse
button to complete it.
If you find that you didn't begin your selection in
exactly the right spot, there's no need to start over. Just hold
down your spacebar, then drag your mouse to move the
selection where you need it. When you're done, release your
spacebar and continue dragging out the selection.

Selection outlines appear as a series of moving dashed lines, also known

as "marching ants".
To change the color of the block, we'll use
Photoshop's Hue/Saturation image adjustment. To select it, I'll go up to
the Image menu at the top of the screen where I'll
choose Adjustments and then Hue/Saturation:

The Hue/Saturation image

adjustment is great for
changing the color of objects in an image.
This brings up the Hue/Saturation dialog box. Changing the color is as easy as
dragging the Hue slider left or right until you find the color you want. I'm going to
drag mine towards the right to a value of 28 to select orange. Then, to bump up the
color saturation a bit, I'll drag the Saturation slider towards the right to a value of around +25:

Remove selections by choosing Deselect from under the Select menu.

A faster way to remove a selection is with the keyboard
shortcut, Ctrl+D (Win) / Command+D (Mac), but either way will work.

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 The Elliptical Marquee Tool In Photoshop
The Elliptical Marquee Tool, which is what we'll be looking at here, is another of Photoshop's basic selection tools. It's
nearly identical to the Rectangular Marquee Tool and works much the same way. In fact, the only real difference is that the
Elliptical Marquee Tool allows us to draw oval or circular selections!
By default, the Elliptical Marquee Tool is hiding behind the
Rectangular Marquee Tool in the Tools panel. To access it, simply click on
the Rectangular Marquee Tool, then hold your mouse button down for a
second or two until a fly-out menu appears showing you the other tools
that are nested behind it. Click on the Elliptical Marquee Tool in the fly-
out menu to select it:

Every tool in the Tools panel can be accessed by pressing a certain letter on your keyboard. Both the Rectangular and
Elliptical Marquee Tools can be selected by pressing the letter M, and to switch between them, you either press M again by itself
or you'll need to press Shift+M. Again, this depends on how you have it set up in the Preferences.

Drawing Oval Selections

To draw an oval selection with the Elliptical Marquee Tool, simply click at the point where you want to begin the
selection, then hold your mouse button down and drag in the direction you need until you have the object or area surrounded by
the selection outline. Release your mouse button to complete the selection. Here's a wedding photo that I have open in
Photoshop:

A smiling bride and groom, happy to be helping us learn about

selections.
I want to add a classic white vignette effect to this photo, and
the Elliptical Marquee Tool will make it easy. First, I'll add a new blank
layer so I can create my effect without damaging the original image. I'll
do that by clicking on the New Layer icon at the bottom of the Layers
panel:

Add a new blank layer by clicking on the New Layer icon in the Layers
panel.
This adds a new blank layer named "Layer 1" above the Background
layer:

Photoshop always gives new layers generic names like "Layer 1".
I'm going to fill this new layer with white using Photoshop's Fill
command. To select it, I'll go up to the Edit menu at the top of the
screen and choose Fill:

The Fill command is found under the Edit menu.

This brings up the Fill dialog box. I'll select White in the Contents section in the top
half of the dialog box, then I'll click OK to exit out of the dialog box and fill "Layer
1" with white:
The Fill command allows us to fill
layers or selections with color.
At this point, my entire document
window is filled with white, blocking
the photo of the wedding couple from
view. To temporarily hide "Layer 1" so
I can see the original photo again, I'll
click on the Layer Visibility icon (also
known as the "eyeball") to the left of
"Layer 1" in the Layers panel:

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 You can temporarily turn layers on or off by clicking the Layer Visibility icon.
Now that I can see the original image, I'll begin my vignetting
effect by drawing an oval selection around the wedding couple. I'll select
the Elliptical Marquee Tool from the Tools panel as we saw earlier and I'll
click somewhere in the top left corner of the photo to mark the spot where I
want to begin my selection. Then, while still holding down my mouse
button, I'll drag down towards the bottom right corner of the photo. As I
drag, an oval selection outline appears around the couple in the center of
the image:

Click and hold on the spot where you want to begin the oval selection, then
drag in the direction you need to draw the selection outline.

Repositioning Selections As You're Drawing Them

If you're following along with your own photo, you
probably just noticed one of the big differences between using
the Rectangular and Elliptical Marquee Tools. With the
Rectangular Marquee Tool, the corner of the selection always
remains at the exact spot you clicked on to begin the selection,
no matter how large of a selection you drag out. With the
Elliptical Marquee Tool, things get a bit trickier. Since elliptical
shapes are rounded without any corners, the selection outline
moves further and further away from the spot you initially
clicked on as you drag out the selection. This can make it next
to impossible to begin the selection at exactly the right spot you
needed.
Fortunately, the same trick for repositioning selections
as you're drawing them with the Rectangular Marquee Tool
works with the Elliptical Marquee Tool. Simply hold down
your spacebar as you're drawing the oval selection and drag
with your mouse to move it back into position, then release
your spacebar and continue dragging it out. You'll most likely
find that you need to move the selection several times as you're
drawing it, so just hold down your spacebar each time, drag the
selection outline back into place, then release the spacebar and
continue dragging out the selection.
When you're happy with the size, shape and location of your
oval selection, release your mouse button to complete it. We
can now see an elliptical selection outline surrounding the
couple in the photo:
An oval selection outline appears around the wedding couple.
Feathering A Selection
In a moment, I'm going to use the oval selection I created with the
Elliptical Marquee Tool to knock out the center of the solid white layer,
creating my vignette effect. The only problem is that by default, selection
edges are hard, and what I really need to create my vignette effect is a soft,
smooth transition between the selected and unselected areas of the photo.
We can soften selection edges in Photoshop by "feathering" them, and we
do that by going up to the Select menu at the top of the screen,
choosing Modify, and then choosing Feather:

You'll find various ways to alter selections under the Select menu.
This brings up Photoshop's Feather Selection dialog box. I'm going to set my Feather Radius value to around 30 pixels, which
should be large enough to give me a smooth transition area between the white vignette edges and the couple in the center of the
photo. The exact value you use for your image will depend on the size of your photo and will probably require some trial and
error before you get it exactly right:
Feathering a selection softens the selection edges.
I'll click OK to exit out of the dialog box. Photoshop feathers the
selection edges for me, although we won't actually see the effect of the
feathering until we do something with the selection, as we're about to do.
I'm going to click back on the
Layer Visibility icon on "Layer
1" to bring back the solid white
fill:

When a layer is currently hidden, the eyeball inside the Layer Visibility icon is also
hidden.

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 This fills the document window with white once again, making it easy to see the selection outline we created:
Turning "Layer 1" back on fills the document window once again with solid
white.
Finally, to complete the vignette effect, I'll simply
press Delete (Win) / Backspace (Mac) on my keyboard to delete the area of
white inside the selection outline. To remove the selection outline since I no
longer need it, I'll click anywhere inside the document window with the
Elliptical Marquee Tool. Notice the soft transition between the white edges
and the photo in the center thanks to the feathering we applied:

The Elliptical Marquee Tool made it easy to create this classic photo effect.

Drawing Circular Selections

The Elliptical Marquee Tool also allows us to easily draw selections in the shape of a perfect circle. In fact, just as we
saw with the Rectangular Marquee Tool when we constrained it to a perfect square, there's two ways to draw a circle with the
Elliptical Marquee Tool. One way is by setting some options in the Options Bar at the top of the screen.
Here's a photo I have open of the moon. Let's say I want to select the moon so I can add it to a different photo. Since the
shape of the moon is circular (at least as it appears to us earthlings in a 2D photo), the Elliptical Marquee Tool is an obvious
choice for selecting it:

The Elliptical Marquee Tool is the tool of choice for selecting

moons, planets and other round celestial bodies.
Whenever you have the Elliptical Marquee Tool selected,
the Options Bar will display options specifically for this tool, and
for the most part, the options are the same as what you'll find with
the Rectangular Marquee Tool. One of the options is called Style,
and by default, it's set to Normal, which allows us to draw any
elliptical shape we want. To constrain the shape of the selection to
a perfect circle, change the Style option to Fixed Ratio. By
default, Photoshop will set the Width and Height values in the
Options Bar to 1, which constrains the width-to-height aspect ratio
of the selection to 1:1, creating a perfect circle:

The options for both the Rectangular and Elliptical

Marquee Tools are nearly identical.
To draw a circular selection around the moon, I'll
click and hold my mouse button down somewhere above
the top left of the moon to set my starting point, then I'll
drag down towards the bottom right until I have the moon
selected. As I drag out the selection, it will be constrained
to a perfect circle thanks to the options we set in the
Options Bar. Unfortunately, I'll run into the same problem
here with the selection outline moving further and further
away from my starting point as I drag out the selection, so
I'll need to hold down my spacebar a few times to
reposition the selection as I draw it. When I'm done, I'll
release my mouse button to complete the selection:

The spacebar is your friend when trying to select objects

with the Elliptical Marquee Tool. Hold it down to
reposition selections as you draw them.

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 The Keyboard Shortcut
While there's technically nothing wrong with changing the settings in the Options Bar to constrain the selection outline
to a circle, it can quickly become frustrating because Photoshop does not automatically set the Style option back to Normal when
you're done, which means you'll have to remember to always change it back yourself, otherwise you'll still be in Fixed Ratio
mode the next time you try to draw an elliptical selection.
A better way to constrain the selection to a circle is to simply hold down your  Shift key as you're drawing it. Just as
adding the Shift key will constrain a rectangular selection to a square when using the Rectangular Marquee Tool, it will force the
selection into a perfect circle with the Elliptical Marquee Tool.
Keep in mind, though, that the order in which you do things is important. Click and begin dragging out your selection,
then hold down the Shift key to constrain the selection to a circle and continue dragging. When you're done, release your mouse
button to complete the selection, then release the Shift key. If you don't follow the correct order, you could get unexpected
results.

Drawing Selections From The Center

You can also draw elliptical selections from
the center outward, which is often an easier way to
work with the Elliptical Marquee Tool. Simply click
in the center of the object or area you need to select,
then hold down your Alt (Win) / Option (Mac) key
and continue dragging. As soon as you press and hold
the Alt / Option key, the spot you initially clicked on
will become the center point of the selection, and as
you continue dragging, the selection will extend out
in all directions from that point.
Again, the order in which you do things in
important. Click and drag to begin the selection, then
press and hold Alt / Option to constrain the selection
to a circle and continue dragging. When you're done,
release your mouse button to complete the selection,
then release the Alt / Option key.
You can drag out a circular selection from
its center as well. Just add the Shift key to the
keyboard shortcut. Click and drag to begin the selection, then press and hold Shift+Alt (Win) / Shift+Option (Mac) to constrain
the selection to a circle and force the selection out from its center. Continue dragging out the selection, and when you're done,
release your mouse button to complete it, then release your Shift and Alt / Option keys:

Use Shift+Alt (Win) / Shift+Option (Mac) to draw a circular selection from its center with the Elliptical Marquee Tool.
Now that I have the moon selected, I'll open up a second photo, this time of a city at night, and with both images open in separate
document windows, I'll select Photoshop's Move Tool from the Tools panel:

Selecting the Move Tool.

With the Move Tool selected, I'll hold down my Alt (Win ) / Option (Mac) key, then I'll click inside the selection
and drag the moon into the second image. Holding down the Alt / Option key here tells Photoshop to create a
copy of the moon rather than cutting it out of the photo:

With the moon selected, I can use the Move Tool to drag it into another photo.
Since the moon is looking a little too big for the second image, I'll press Ctrl+T (Win) / Command+T (Mac) to
bring up Photoshop's Free
Transform command to resize
it, holding the Shift key down as
I drag the corner handles inward.
This constrain the moon's width-
to-height ratio so I don't
accidentally distort the shape of
it as I'm resizing it:

Dragging the Free Transform

handles to resize the moon.
You can also use the Free
Transform command to move
objects around inside the
document window simply by
clicking inside of the Free
Transform bounding box and
dragging the object to a new
location. I think I'll move the
moon over to the top right side
of the tower. To exit out of the
Free Transform command, I'll
press Enter (Win) / Return (M
ac) on my keyboard:

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 Adding the moon to the second image was easy once it was selected with the Elliptical Marquee Tool.

Selecting the standard Lasso Tool.

For a faster way to select the Lasso Tool, simply press the letter  L on your keyboard. There are two other types of lasso
tools as well - the Polygonal Lasso Tool and the Magnetic Lasso Tool, both of which are hiding behind the standard Lasso Tool
in the Tools panel.
Each of the three types of lasso tool gives us a different way to draw selections.
All three lasso tools share the letter L as their keyboard shortcut for
selecting them, so depending on how you have things set up in Photoshop's
Preferences, you can cycle through the three tools either by pressing the
letter L repeatedly or by pressing Shift+L.

Drawing Freehand Selections

Of all the selection tools in Photoshop, the Lasso Tool is probably the
easiest to use and understand because you simply drag a freehand selection
around the object or area you want to select, in a similar way to how you
would outline something on a piece of paper with a pen or pencil. With the
Lasso Tool selected, your mouse cursor will appear as a small lasso icon, and
you simply click at the spot in the document where you want to begin the
selection, then continue holding your mouse button down and drag to draw a
freeform selection outline:

Drawing a selection outline with the Lasso Tool is like drawing

with a pen or pencil on paper.
To complete the selection, simply return to the spot
where you began and release your mouse button. You don't
necessarily have to return the same spot you started from, but if you
don't, Photoshop will automatically close the selection for you by
drawing a straight line from the point where you released your
mouse button to the point where you began, so in most cases, you will
want to finish where you started:

Photoshop will close a selection automatically with a straight line if

you don't drag back to the beginning point.
To say that the Lasso Tool is not the most accurate of
Photoshop's selection tools would be an understatement, but its
usefulness is greatly improved with Photoshop's ability to add to and subtract from selections. I find that the best way to work
with the Lasso Tool is to drag an initial selection around the object or area I'm selecting, ignoring any obvious mistakes I made,
then going back around and fixing up the problem areas by adding to or subtracting from the selection as needed.
Here's a photo I currently have open on my screen of two people shaking hands. I want to select the handshake and
place it into a different image:

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 The Lasso Tool is a good choice for selecting freeform objects like this.
To begin my selection, I'll first grab the Lasso Tool from the Tools panel as we saw earlier. Then I'll click somewhere
along the top of the sleeve of the person on the left to begin my selection, although it really makes no difference where along the
object you begin your selection with the Lasso Tool. Once I've clicked on a starting point, I'll continue holding my mouse button
down as I drag to draw an outline around the area of the photo I need. I can already see that I've made some mistakes, but I'll
ignore them for now and continue on:

Don't worry about any mistakes with your initial selection. You can fix them later.
If you need to scroll your image around inside the document window as you're drawing the selection, hold down
your spacebar, which will temporarily switch you to Photoshop's Hand Tool, scroll the image as needed, then release your
spacebar and continue drawing the selection.
To make sure I select all of the pixels I need along the edge of the photo, I'll press the letter F on my keyboard to switch
to Full Screen Mode with Menu Bar and I'll drag my selection outline into the gray pasteboard area surrounding the image.
Don't worry about selecting the pasteboard, since Photoshop only cares about the image itself, not the pasteboard area:

It's okay to drag the Lasso Tool into the pasteboard area when you need to select
pixels along the edge of a photo.
If you want to switch back to the document window view mode, press
the letter F a couple more times to cycle through Photoshop's screen modes. I'll
continue dragging around the area I need to select until I'm back to my starting
point, and to complete my initial selection with the Lasso Tool, I'll simply
release my mouse button. An animated outline, commonly known as "marching
ants", now appears around the selected area:

The initial selection is complete, but there's quite a few problem areas that need fixing.
Since the Lasso Tool is essentially a manual selection tool that relies heavily on your own drawing skills, as well as on
the accuracy and performance of your mouse, you'll probably end up with an initial selection outline that falls well short of
perfect, as mine did. Not to worry though, since we can easily go back and fix up the problem areas, which we'll do next!

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 Adding To The Initial Selection
To inspect the selection outline for any problem areas, it
usually helps to be zoomed in on the image. To zoom in,
press and
hold Ctrl+spacebar (Win) / Command+spacebar (Mac)
to temporarily switch to Photoshop's Zoom Tool, then
click inside the document window once or twice to zoom
in (to zoom back out later, press and
hold Alt+spacebar (Win) / Option-spacebar (Mac) and
click inside the document window). Once you've zoomed
in, hold down your spacebar by itself to temporarily
switch to the Hand Tool, then click and drag the image
along the selection outline to look for problems.
Here, I've come across an area where I missed the edge of
the person's hand:

One of several problem areas with the initial selection.

No need to start all over again. I can easily fix this by simply
adding to the existing selection. Make sure you still have the
Lasso Tool selected, then to add to a selection, hold down
your Shift key. You'll see a small plus sign (+) appear in the
bottom right of the cursor icon, letting you know that you're
now in Add to Selection mode. With the Shift key held down,
click somewhere inside of the existing selection, then drag
outside of it and along the edge of the area you want to add.
When you're done adding the new area, drag back inside of the
existing selection:

Hold down your Shift key and drag around the area you want to
add to the existing selection.
Drag back to the spot where you initially clicked, then release
your mouse button to finish. The area of the person's hand
that I missed initially has now been added:

More of the image has been added to the initial selection.

There's no need to continue holding down your Shift
key the whole time you're adding to a selection. Once you've
started dragging your mouse, you can safely release the Shift
key. You'll stay in Add to Selection mode until you release
your mouse button.
Subtracting From The Initial Selection
I'll continue scrolling along my selection outline
looking for problems, and here I've come across the exact
opposite problem from what I had a moment ago. This time, I
selected too much of the image around the person's finger:

Another sloppy selection area. This time, too much of the area
was selected.
No worries though, since we can remove parts of a
selection just as easily as we can add to them. To remove an
unwanted area from a selection, hold down
your Alt (Win) / Option (Mac) key. This will place you
in Subtract from Selection mode, and you'll see a small
minus sign (-) appear in the bottom right corner of the cursor
icon. With the Alt / Option key held down, simply click
anywhere outside of the existing selection to set a starting
point, then drag inside the selection and along the edge of the
area you want to remove. In my case, I'm going to drag along
the edge of the finger. When you're done, drag back outside of
the existing selection:
Removing the problem area by subtracting it from the selection.
Drag back to the spot where you first clicked, then
release your mouse button to finish. The unwanted area around the
person's finger has now been removed:

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 Problem area? What problem area? I don't see any problem area.
Again, there's no need to hold your Alt / Option key down the
entire time. You can safely release the key once you've started
dragging. You'll remain in Subtract from Selection mode until you
release your mouse button.
Once I've scrolled all around the selection outline fixing
problems by adding or removing parts as needed, my final selection
with the Lasso Tool is complete:

The final selection.

With the handshake now selected, I'll
press Ctrl+C (Win) / Command+C (Mac) to quickly copy
the selected area, then I'll open up a second image in
Photoshop and press Ctrl+V (Win) / Command+V (Mac)
to paste the handshake into the new photo, repositioning it
as needed:

The Polygonal Lasso Tool In Photoshop

By default, the Polygonal Lasso Tool is hiding behind the standard Lasso Tool in the Tools panel. To get to it, click on
the Lasso Tool, then hold your mouse button down until a fly-out menu appears showing you the additional tools that are
available. Select the Polygonal Lasso Tool from the list:

Drawing Straight-Sided Polygonal Selections

Drawing selections with the Polygonal Lasso Tool is a lot like drawing
straight-sided paths with the Pen Tool. Begin by clicking somewhere along the
edge of the object or area you need to select, then release your mouse button. This
adds a point, commonly called an anchor or fastening point, to the document. As
you move the Polygonal Lasso Tool away from the point, you'll see a thin straight
line extending out from your mouse cursor, looking a bit like a spider weaving a
web, with the other end of the line attached to the anchor point. Click again to add
a second point, then release your mouse button. The line will become "fastened" to
the new point, with both points now joined together by the straight line.
Continue moving around the object or area, clicking to add a new point anywhere where the line needs to change
direction, fastening the end of the line to each new point as you go along. Unlike the standard Lasso Tool, as well as many of
Photoshop's other selection tools, there's no need to keep your mouse button held down as you move from point to point. Simply
click to add a point, release your mouse button, move to the
next spot where the line needs to change direction, then click
to add a new point:

Click to add points around the object or area where you need
the line to change direction.
Once you've made your way around the object or area,
complete the selection by clicking once again on the initial
point you added. Photoshop will convert all of the straight
lines into a selection outline. A small circle will appear in the
bottom right corner of the cursor icon when you're close
enough to the initial point to complete the selection. I've
enlarged things here to make the circle easier to see:

small circle appears in the bottom right of the cursor icon when
you're close enough to the initial point to complete the selection.
You can also close a selection simply by double-clicking
anywhere with the Polygonal Lasso Tool. Photoshop will
automatically close the selection with a straight line from the point
you clicked on to your initial starting point.
Here's a photo I have open in Photoshop showing a large
blank billboard hanging on the side of a building. I want to add a
photo to the billboard, which means I'll first need to select it:

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 A blank billboard.
At first glance, you may think the billboard is shaped like a rectangle, so why bother with the Polygonal Lasso Tool
when the Rectangular Marquee Tool should work just fine? Let's give it a try. I'll press the letter  M on my keyboard to quickly
select the Rectangular Marquee Tool, then I'll click in the top left corner of the billboard to begin my selection and drag down to
the bottom right corner. To complete the selection, I'll release my mouse button:

Attempting to select the billboard with the Rectangular

Marquee Tool.
As we can see, even though the billboard probably
would appear rectangular to us if we were standing directly in
front of it, the angled perspective of the photo is distorting its
shape, and the Rectangular Marquee Tool ends up doing a
rather lousy job of selecting it.
I'll press Ctrl+D (Win) / Command+D (Mac) to
remove my failed selection outline. This time, let's try
selecting the billboard with the Polygonal Lasso Tool. I'll grab
the Polygonal Lasso Tool from the Tools panel as we saw
earlier, then to begin my selection, I'll click in the top left
corner of the billboard and release my mouse button. This sets
my initial starting point for the selection. I'll move to the top
right corner and click to add a second point. Photoshop joins
the two points together with a thin straight line. I'll click to
add a third point in the bottom right corner, then click to add a
fourth point in the bottom left corner, fastening the straight
line to each new point as I make my way around the billboard.
Again, I'm not holding my mouse button down as I move from
point to point. I'm simply clicking to add points, then
releasing my mouse button each time:

Clicking in each of the four corners with the

Polygonal Lasso Tool, beginning with the top left and moving
clockwise.
If you make a mistake and click to add a point in the
wrong spot, there's no need to start over. Just press
the Backspace (Win) / Delete (Mac) key on your keyboard to
undo the last point you added. If you need to undo multiple
points, continue pressing Backspace (Win) / Delete (Mac) to
undo points in the reverse order they were added.
To complete my selection, I'll click back on the
initial starting point for the selection in the top left corner of
the billboard, then release my mouse button. Photoshop
converts all of the straight lines between the points into my
selection outline, and as we can see, we were able to do a
much better job of selecting the billboard this time:

The Polygonal Lasso Tool made it easy to select the billboard.

Now that the billboard is selected, I'll open up the image I want to
add to it:

The soon-to-be
billboard photo.
I'll
press Ctrl+A (Win)
/ Command+A (Ma
c) to quickly select
the entire image,
then Ctrl+C (Win) 
Command+C

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 (Mac) to copy it to the clipboard. To add the image to the billboard, I'll switch back over to my original photo, then I'll go up to
the Edit menu at the top of the screen and choose the Paste Into command:

Photoshop's Paste Into command allows us to paste an image directly into a selection.
This places the second photo directly into the selection, and after a little resizing with
Photoshop's Free Transform command, the image appears on the

QUARTER 3: ACTIVITY 3

I.
a.Create an image just like the Sample
Output using the Image 1 and 2.
You can use any tool that are
indicated above.
b.Take a screenshot of your image
once you are finish selecting it using
the tools that have been discussed
above. (see figure 1) Sample Output Image 1 Image 2
c. Take a screenshot of your final
output.

II.
a.Open the house picture provided to
you.
b.Change the color of the roof
according to your choice.
c.Take a screenshot of your final
output.

NOTE: Please advice your teacher on

what color you are using to avoid any
duplicate. SAME COLOR IS NOT
ALLOWED!

Figure 1

Note:
 Pictures of these activities
will be provided to you.
 Please follow this format
in submitting your output.
Name:
Date of submission:
Quarter:
Activity No.:
Figure 2

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