I'll select the Elliptical Marquee Tool from the Tools panel as we saw earlier and I'll click somewhere in the top left corner of the photo to mark the spot where I want to begin my selection. Then, while still holding down my mouse button, I'll drag down towards the bottom right corner of the photo. As I drag, an oval selection outline appears around the couple in the center of the image:.
If you're following along with your own photo, you probably just noticed one of the big differences between using the Rectangular and Elliptical Marquee Tools. With the Rectangular Marquee Tool, the corner of the selection always remains at the exact spot you clicked on to begin the selection, no matter how large of a selection you drag out. With the Elliptical Marquee Tool, things get a bit trickier.
Since elliptical shapes are rounded without any corners, the selection outline moves further and further away from the spot you initially clicked on as you drag out the selection. This can make it next to impossible to begin the selection at exactly the right spot you needed. Fortunately, the same trick for repositioning selections as you're drawing them with the Rectangular Marquee Tool works with the Elliptical Marquee Tool.
Simply hold down your spacebar as you're drawing the oval selection and drag with your mouse to move it back into position, then release your spacebar and continue dragging it out. You'll most likely find that you need to move the selection several times as you're drawing it, so just hold down your spacebar each time, drag the selection outline back into place, then release the spacebar and continue dragging out the selection. When you're happy with the size, shape and location of your oval selection, release your mouse button to complete it.
We can now see an elliptical selection outline surrounding the couple in the photo:. In a moment, I'm going to use the oval selection I created with the Elliptical Marquee Tool to knock out the center of the solid white layer, creating my vignette effect.
The only problem is that by default, selection edges are hard, and what I really need to create my vignette effect is a soft, smooth transition between the selected and unselected areas of the photo. We can soften selection edges in Photoshop by "feathering" them, and we do that by going up to the Select menu at the top of the screen, choosing Modify , and then choosing Feather :. This brings up Photoshop's Feather Selection dialog box.
I'm going to set my Feather Radius value to around 30 pixels, which should be large enough to give me a smooth transition area between the white vignette edges and the couple in the center of the photo. The exact value you use for your image will depend on the size of your photo and will probably require some trial and error before you get it exactly right:.
I'll click OK to exit out of the dialog box. Photoshop feathers the selection edges for me, although we won't actually see the effect of the feathering until we do something with the selection, as we're about to do.
I'm going to click back on the Layer Visibility icon on "Layer 1" to bring back the solid white fill:. This fills the document window with white once again, making it easy to see the selection outline we created:. To remove the selection outline since I no longer need it, I'll click anywhere inside the document window with the Elliptical Marquee Tool.
Notice the soft transition between the white edges and the photo in the center thanks to the feathering we applied:. The Elliptical Marquee Tool made drawing the oval selection and creating the vignette effect easy.
But what if we need to draw a circular selection? We'll look at that next! Shortcodes, Actions and Filters Plugin: Error in shortcode [ ads-basics-middle ]. The Elliptical Marquee Tool also allows us to easily draw selections in the shape of a perfect circle. In fact, just as we saw with the Rectangular Marquee Tool when we constrained it to a perfect square, there's two ways to draw a circle with the Elliptical Marquee Tool. One way is by setting some options in the Options Bar at the top of the screen.
Here's a photo I have open of the moon. Let's say I want to select the moon so I can add it to a different photo. Right-click the image to open the menu, click "Select Inverse" and then press "Delete" to remove the outside area. The remaining round shape can then be applied to your project. By Kathryn Hatashita-Lee.
Elliptical Marquee Tool Open your image in the Photo Editor workspace and click the "Expert" tab on the header to display the Toolbox in the sidebar. Select the Magnetic Lasso tool from the Toolbox by clicking on the icon , or if Magnetic Lasso was not the last tool applied select it from the floating window. Bring the mouse cursor to the border of the object that should be selected.
Press the left button and start dragging the cursor along the required object. Pay attention to fastening points that appear as you outline the object and when you make a click. If a fastening point is irrelevant you can remove it by pressing the DELETE key and return to the previous fastening point to continue outlining the object. Close the contour, that is join the first fastening point with the last one by bringing the cursor to the first point or by making a double-click.
Magic Wand This tool is used to select a consistently colored area. You can set Tolerance in the Options palette of the magic wand tool. The higher the value, the more colors will fall into the selected area. The Tolerance value ranges from 0 to At Tolerance equal to 0 the selected area will be represented only by one color, at Tolerance equal to - all colors of the image will be selected, that is the whole image.
To select a consistently colored area, you should: Step 1. Select the magic wand tool in the Toolbox by clicking the icon. Bring the cursor to the pixel of the image that must be included into the selection and left-click it.
As a result an outline appears around the pixel. It includes colors of the image similar to the color of the selected pixel according to the specified Tolerance value.
These selection tools are efficient due to the flexibility of their usage: you can add to, subtract from or intersect a selection. To add an area to the previous selection you should press the SHIFT key before you use a selection tool and, keeping it pressed, make a new selection. To subtract an area from the previous selection you should press the Alt Option in Mac key before you use a selection tool and, keeping it pressed, make a new selection.
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