Topic 4.2 WORKING WITH SELECTION AND LAYER BASICS

TOPIC 4.
2: WORKING
WITH SELECTION AND
LAYER BASICS
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Overview
• Photoshop is a powerful image editor,
one of the essential we need to have is
knowing how to make selections.
Without selections, we’d have no way to
adjust or edit specific areas of an image,
and all we can do is to adjust the entire
image as a whole.
Overview
• Photoshop gives us lots of selection tools to choose
from, and each tool is designed for a specific task.
Basic selection tools, like the Rectangular Marquee
Tool and the Elliptical Marquee Tool, are perfect
for selecting simple, geometric shapes. If we want to
draw freehand selections, the Lasso
Tool, Polygonal Lasso Tool and Magnetic Lasso
Tool are what you need. The Magic Wand Tool and
the Color Range command are great at selecting
areas based on color.
Overview
• The Quick Selection Tool lets us quickly select
objects just by painting over them. It is somewhat
similar to the Magic Wand tool in that it also selects
pixels based on tone and color. But the Quick
Selection Tool goes far beyond the Magic Wand's
limited abilities by also looking for similar textures in
the image, which makes it great at detecting the
edges of objects. And unlike the Magic Wand where
we click on an area and hope for the best, the Quick
Selection Tool works more like a brush, allowing us
to select areas simply by "painting" over them.
PART 1: MAKING A SELECTION USING
THE QUICK SELECTION TOOL
1. Open and image in Photoshop
2. Select the Quick Selection tool from the
Tools panel
3. Select specific area on the image.
4. Applying adjustment layer to the
background. , invert the selection by
pressing Shift + Ctrl + I (Win) / Shift +
Command + I (Mac)
5. Click Save to apply the changes made to
the image, or use Save As… to save it to a
new file.
PART 1: MAKING A SELECTION USING
THE QUICK SELECTION TOOL
PART 2: USING THE MAGIC
WAND TO MAKE A SELECTION
• The Magic Wand Tool, known
simply as the Magic Wand, is
one of the oldest selection tools
in Photoshop.
• Unlike other selection tools that
select pixels in an image based
on shapes or by detecting object
edges, the Magic Wand selects
pixels based on tone and color.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eL5HAyNan0
• Open an image in Photoshop
• Select the Magic Wand tool from the Tools panel
• Select the object to be replaced using the Magic Wand.
• Inverse the selection. (Select menu at the top of the screen and
choose Inverse)
• Next, open the image that will be used to replace the
original object. Replace the object/background you want.
• Click Save to apply the changes made to the image, or use
Save As… to save it to a new file.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eL5HAyNan0
PART 3: LAYER BASICS
• Every Photoshop file contains one or more layers. New
files are generally created with a background layer, which
contains a color or an image that shows through the
transparent areas of subsequent layers. All new layers in
an image are transparent until a text or artwork is added.
• Working with layers is similar to placing portions of a
drawing on clear sheets of film, such as those viewed with
an overhead projector: individual sheets may be edited,
repositioned, and deleted without affecting the other sheets.
When the sheets are stacked, the entire composition is
visible.
Photoshop Without Layers
• Start by creating a new Photoshop
document.
1. Go up to the File menu in the Menu
Bar along the top of the screen and
choose New
2. Draw a square shape. Select
the Rectangular Marquee Tool from the
top of your Tools panel.
3. Fill the square with color. Go to Edit > Fill >
Color
4. Draw a Round Shape and fill color
Photoshop Without Layers
The Problem with Photoshop
Without Layers
Everything done was added to that one

layer. With our entire composition on a
single layer, and don't have many
options if want to change something.
Could undo our way back through the
steps to get to the point where we can
make our change, or we could scrap the
whole thing and start over again. Neither
of those options sounds very appealing.
Working in Photoshop With Layers
Using the Layers Panel
1. Go up to the File menu in the Menu
Bar along the top of the screen and
choose New
2. Add a new layer (Layer 1)
3. Add the first shape to Layer 1 and fill
color (Rectangular Marquee Tool and
deselect)
4. Add another layer (Layer 2), draw
shape (elliptical Marquee Tool) and fill
color and deselect.
Changing the Order of the
Layers
• Working with layers can
swap the order of shapes so
that the square one appears
in front of the round one, all
we need to do is move the
square shape's layer (Layer
1) above the round shape's
layer (Layer 2)
• Moving Layers Around
– To move the contents of a layer, select
Photoshop's Move Tool from the top of the Tools
panel
• Deleting Layers

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