User Guide

Chapter 5: Edit mode
Selections tools
Using selections
Use selections to isolate an area of a photo to apply edits or filters to only that area rather than the whole photo. There are three
different selection tools and each selects area of a photo in a unique way. The controls available change depending on which tool you
select.
To use the Selections tool:
1. In Edit mode, in the Selections group, click Selections.
2. Select one of the tools: Freehand Lasso, Magic Wand, Marquee. See below for more detailed steps for using these tools.
You can also quickly access the Selections tool by clicking on the Create Selection button at the top when using some of
the tools in Edit. Once you make your selection and click Done to return to the Edit tool, you can modify your selection by
clicking Modify Selection.
You can use Selections with the following Edit tools:
Add: Vignette, Special Effect
Exposure/Lighting: Exposure, Levels, Auto Levels, Tone Curves, Lighting
Color: White Balance, Color Balance
Detail: Sharpen, Blur, Noise
The selection tools
Freehand Lasso: Click the left mouse button and drag the cursor to draw around the area that you wish to select. As you
draw, a line appears showing where you have drawn. When you release the mouse, the end of the line joins to the start auto-
matically to complete the selection. The whole selection animates and looks like marching ants.
Magic Wand: Click on any area of the image and all the pixels the same color are included in the selection. You can choose
whether to select only the same color pixels that are actually touching the one you clicked, or all the pixels in the photo that
are similar. You can increase the threshold to include more pixels in the selection. The lower the threshold, the more similar
a pixel has to be to the one clicked to be included. The greater the threshold, the more different a pixel can be and still be in
the selection.
Marquee: Click and drag either a rectangle or an ellipse that begins where you first click and ends when you release the
mouse.
Combining the tools
You can use the Selection tools separately or in combination. For example, you can use the Magic Wand to select most of a particular
color, then switch to the Freehand Lasso to add to, or subtract from, the selection. Or you could use the Marquee to select a large
general area, then refine it using the Freehand Lasso.
To use the Freehand Lasso:
1. Click the Freehand Lasso to select it.
2. On the image, click and hold down the left mouse button as you draw around the area you want to select.
3. Release the mouse button to complete the selection.
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