

If you prefer to leave the tool options at their default, you can add a feather after creating the selection by choosing Select > Modify > Feather (Shift + F6) and entering a value. Softening the Edge of a Selection - When using the Marquee and Lasso tools, tapping Return (Mac) | Enter (Win), will automatically highlight the Feather amount in the Options bar (adding a Feather softens the edge of the selection and is applied to the NEXT selection that you draw with the tool).

Toggling the Lasso Tools in Photoshop - Holding the Option key (Mac) | Alt key (Win) toggles the Lasso tool to the Polygonal Lasso tool and vice versa. This video ( 3, 2, 1, Ps! Seven Tips for Making Basic Selections in Photoshop) demonstrates several of the shortcuts above. Release the spacebar (while still holding the mouse down) to continue creating the selection. Repositioning the Selection while Drawing - After starting to draw a selection using a Marquee or Lasso tool, press and hold the spacebar (while still holding the mouse down), then drag to reposition the origin of the selection. Selecting a Circle or a Square - Shift -drag constrains the Rectangular Marquee tool to a square and the Elliptical Marquee tool to a circle. Shift + Option -drag (Mac) | Shift + Alt -drag (Win) to produce the intersection of selections (the exception being the Quick Selection tool).ĭrawing a Rectangular/Elliptical Marquee from the Center - Option -drag (Mac) | Alt -drag (Win) with the Rectangular/Elliptical Marquee tools to create a selection from the center.Option -drag (Mac) | Alt -drag (Win) to subtract from the original selection.Shift – drag with the tool to add to an existing selection.I'll use the Object Selection Tool to select the wedding couple in the foreground.Here are 25 of my favorite tips and shortcuts for creating selections in Photoshop!Īdd To, Subtract From, and Intersect Selections - The Marquee, Lasso, Magic Wand, Quick Selection, and Object Selection tools all share the following shortcuts that can help when making complex selections: So to follow along, make sure that your copy of Photoshop CC is up to date.įor this tutorial, I'll be using this image that I downloaded from Adobe Stock. The Object Selection Tool is brand new as of Photoshop 2020. And if the initial selection isn't perfect, you can easily add or subtract areas, again just by dragging around them. Once you've drawn a quick selection, Photoshop automatically shrink-wraps the selection to the edges of your subject.

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In this tutorial, I show you how to use the new Object Selection Tool in Photoshop CC 2020 to quickly select people, animals or other objects in your photos! Unlike Photoshop's Select Subject command which looks at the entire image and tries to identify the subject automatically, the Object Selection Tool lets you identify the subject yourself just by drawing a rough selection around it.
