Chapter 5: Selecting Image Content

Overview

One of the questions I get asked most often during my image-editing training classes is how to take someone's head and put on another person's body. The answer: good selections. Before you can delete, move, fill, or replace part of an image, you have to select the portion of the image with which you want to work. Photoshop offers a number of selection tools that you can use to zero in on an area to edit with precision and control. In this chapter, you'll learn how to:

• Select rectangular or oval shapes

• Make an irregular selection

• Select by color

• Add or remove part of the selection

• Cancel the selection