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Book VIII
Chapter 1
Introducing
Fireworks CS5
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Working with Basic Selection Tools
✦ Marquee: To make a selection with the Marquee tool, simply select it
from the Tools panel, and then click and drag to surround the area you
want to select. You can add to the selection by holding down the Shift
key and dragging another marquee region, or deselect a portion of the
active selection by holding down the Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac) key
while dragging with the Marquee tool.
✦ Lasso: To use the Lasso tool, select it from the Tools panel and click and
drag to create a path that then becomes your selection. As mentioned in
the Marquee bullet, you can add to the selection by holding down the
Shift key and creating another selection region, or subtract from the
selection by holding down the Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac) key while
dragging a selection region with the Lasso tool.
You can use both the Marquee and Lasso tools interchangeably when
making a selection.
By making a selection with the Marquee tool or Lasso tool and then clicking
and dragging with the Pointer tool, you can move one part of an image to
another, as shown in Figure 1-4. If you make no selection before you drag,
everything on the existing layer is moved.
Figure 1-4:
Drag a
selection to
move it.
Switch to the Subselection tool and notice that if you have an existing selec-
tion, the pointer changes to a double arrow, indicating that you will clone
(copy) the selection when you click and drag it.
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