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The Elliptical Marquee Tool creates elliptical selections:
- To create a selection In the Toolbox, select the Elliptical Marquee
Tool;
click on the image and drag (holding mouse's left button pressed) - While New selection
option
choosen on the Options bar you delete the existing selection by
creating a new selection. - To add an ellipse to existing selection you have either to choose Add to selection
option
on the Options bar or to press (and hold) [Shift] key while selecting. - To subtract an ellipse from existing selection you have either to choose Subtract from
selection
option
on the Options bar or to press [Alt] key while selecting. - To intersect an ellipse with existing selection you have either to choose Intersect with
selection
option
on the Options bar or to press [Shift+Alt] keys while selecting. - To create an elliptical selection with predefined proportions choose Fixed Aspect Ratio style on the Options bar and set Width and Height values.
- While creating new selection you can constrain proportions to 1:1 (ie. create round selection) by pressing [Shift] key while selecting.
- To create an elliptical selection with predefined size choose Fixed Size style on the Options bar and set Width and Height values.
- While New selection option is chosen and the point of cursor is within selected
area the tool looks like this
and
can move selection (ie. borders of selected area and not image content). - While New selection option is chosen you can also move selection using keyboard
cursor
keys.
* On the animation above colors were inverted just to make selected area visible (it turns black).
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