Adobe Photoshop CS6 Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks by Lynette Kent

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7 Continue changing the
brush size and clicking and
dragging in the image to
select more areas.
8 Press and hold Option (Alt).
C The tool temporarily
changes to the Subtract
from Selection tool.
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9 Click in areas that you
want to remove from the
selection.
0 Press and hold the
spacebar and click in the
image to move to a
different area.
! Click any other areas to remove
them from the selection.
@ Press Ô+J (Ctrl+J) to put the
selection on its own layer.
The selected area appears on a
new layer above the Background
layer.
# Click the eye icon to toggle the
Background layer’s visibility.
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TIPS
Enhance It!
You can click the Auto-Enhance option in the Options
bar ( changes to ) to reduce the roughness of
the selection boundary and extend the selection
toward the edges it detects. Depending on the speed
of your computer, adding the Auto-Enhance option
may slow the selection process.
Keyboard Shortcuts!
To quickly change the brush size as you work, you can
use the keyboard. Press the left bracket key to
decrease the brush size or the right bracket key to
increase the brush size.
More Options!
Click Sample All Layers ( changes to ) in the
Options bar to make a selection based on all layers
instead of just the currently selected layer.
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