User guide

Manipulating Images 93
Lasso
Tools flyout
Freehand Selection Tool—lets you draw a freehand
(irregular) line which is closed automatically to create an
irregularly shaped selection area.
Polygon Selection Tool—lets you draw a series of
straight-line segments (double-click to close the polygon).
Magnetic Selection Tool—lets you trace around an
object edge creating a selection line that snaps to the edge
as you drag.
directly from
toolbar
Magic Wand Tool—lets you select a region based on
the color similarity of adjacent pixels—simply click a
starting pixel then set a Tolerance from the context
toolbar. It works much like the fill tool, but the result is a
selected region rather than a region flooded with a color.
directly from
toolbar
Selection Brush Tool—lets you paint your selection
as a series of brush strokes.
Text
Tools flyout
Text Selection Tool—lets you create a selection in
the form of text. Click with the tool to display the Text
cursor. Type your text, format as needed, and click OK.
(See Creating and Editing text.)
For any selection tool, the Context toolbar includes combination buttons (New,
Add, Subtract, and Intersect) that determine the effect of each new selection
operation. For example, starting with a square selection (created with the New
button), here's what a second partly overlaid square (shown with a solid line)
might produce with each setting:
New