Selection Tools

Selection tools let you specify an editing area on an image. The selected area is marked by a dotted outline. The retouching and artistic tools work only in the selection. You can move the selection outline in the image - place the cursor inside the selected area and drag.
Press V to quickly access the selection tools and switch between them.

Selection

Selections Tools:

• Rectangular Selection lets selecting rectangular and square areas. Drag over the area you want to select with the left mouse button.
• Elliptical Selection lets selecting elliptical or circular areas.
• Lasso allows creating freehand selections. Drag to draw a selection line around an object. When you release the left mouse button, the contour will be closed, the final point will be connected to the start one.
• Polygonal Lasso lets creating a freehand selection from straight segments. Move the cursor and left-click on each point, the program will automatically draw a straight line between two points. To close the contour bring the cursor to the first point or make a double-click in the final point.

Commands:

- Deselect Ctrl+D (Windows) or ⌘+D (Mac).

- Select All Ctrl+A (Windows) or ⌘+A (Mac).

- Inverse Selection Ctrl+Shift+I (Windows) or ⌘+⇧+I (Mac).

Hold Shift to make a square or a circle and to draw a perfectly vertical/horizontal line.

The tools options will be shown in the Settings Panel and in a floating box when right-clicking on the image:

• Selection Mode defines the result of the interaction of selections:

  New . When creating a new selection, the previous selection disappears.

  Add . The selection area will be increased by adding new fragments.

  Subtract . This mode lets removing the part of the selection.

  Intersect . This mode lets keeping only the intersection area of the selections.

  Add	Subtract

• Feather lets blurring edges of the selection.

  Feather = 0	Feather = 15

• Anti-aliasing check-box smooths the jagged edges of the selection. Enable this option before creating a selection.

  Anti-aliasing is disabled	Anti-aliasing is enabled

• From Center check-box lets creating a selection (a rectangle or an ellipse) using a start point, where the cursor is, as a center. Otherwise, selections are created from a corner.

  From Center is disabled	From Center in enabled

• Style. You can specify a size of a selection:

  Normal. The size of a selection is determined by dragging the cursor.

  Fixed Size. This option lets you create a selection with exact dimensions (height and width, in pixels).

  Fixed Ratio. The ratio of height and width of a selection remains fixed.