Rectangular Selection

Now we will see how to select a rectangle. You must click and drag the mouse over the section of the image you want to select.
We will also see how to change the size of the rectangle, but first you must press the Enter key on your keyboard to confirm this selection.

But I’m here to tell you, there’s a difference between the options “feather edges” and “rounded corners” in the lower part of the tools window, and the options, “Distort” and “Rounded rectangle” in the drop-down menu, under the menu item “Select”.
When you use any option, if you know what you want in advance, you can set the options in the lower part of the tools window.
If you later wish to change anything, after the selection has been made, ranging from the edges to the angles, you can use the options under the menu item, “Select”.

 

Ellipse selection

An ellipse selection is the same as that of a rectangular selection.
The only difference is that when you make an ellipse selection, and you keep the Ctrl key on your keyboard pressed, so that you select a perfect circle.
To make adjustments to the size, click and drag with the blocks in the corner or on the edges of the selection.

 

Free Selection

With the tool “Free select” you have two options to select any portion of an image.
You can click and drag the image around the objects you want to select (1), or you can click on different places in the image (2).
The latter places a straight line between two clicked points.
Double click the last point, and it will automatically be connected to the first point.

You can also use both methods together.
If you are back at the starting point of your selection, then you have a circle (1).
When you click this, you close the selection (2).

 

Fuzzy select:

When we select the “Fuzzy select” option, we select the color of adjacent pixels.
The magnitude of the difference in color, is decided by the “threshold” value.
The higher this value, the more the pixel color may differ from the selected color in the image.

 

By color Select:

This selects the color in a similar way as the “Fuzzy Select” tool selects the color.

The big difference is that the pixels do not have to lie next to each other.
They have the same threshold, for instance, clicking on a red pixel, selects all the red pixels in the image.

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