Move the entire rectangle by grabbing and moving the bottom left or top right corners. Resize the selection by grabbing and moving the top left or bottom right corners. You can also change the size of the rectangle. You can always undo this immediately with CtrlВ + Z. A click inside this rectangle crops the surrounding area. Using the mouse, click and drag to open a rectangle.

For an appealing impression for landscape photographs, for example, it is recommended to assign the sky one-third and the landscape two-thirds of the image height. Use this tool to crop and resize your image. In the dialog box that opens, change the height and width of the image by percentages or by pixel values. To use the zoom out function, which reduces the image on the screen by a certain percentage, press and hold Ctrl while clicking with the mouse.ДЇor a true enlargement of your image, open the context menu with a right-click in your image and select вЂ ImageвЂ™ -> вЂ Scale ImageвЂ™. The magnifier is not a true transformation tool because it only zooms the screen representation in or out. When Move is activated, grab and move your selection with the mouse. Selections made with this tool can also be saved and manipulated with the вЂ PathsвЂ™ tab of the Layers, Channels, and Paths dialog.ДЄs you click, Intelligent Scissors tries to draw a selection along color or brightness edges. This tool requires some practice to master, but is invaluable for more advanced work. Once you have marked the area required, just click inside it to select it. One advantage of this technique is that you can change the selection with the aid of control points. With the aid of anchor points set with mouse clicks, draw clean, curved lines. With a bit of effort, the Bezier Curves tool allows you to capture specific areas or objects of an image. The magic wand is ideal for selecting irregular areas of similar color. If the default settings are not suitable, change the threshold value in the option box or combine several selections using Shift. The magic wand fuzzy selection tool selects an image area through color similarity of adjacent pixels. An accurate selection is difficult, so working with an enlarged image is recommended. When you release the mouse button, the start point and end point are joined with a straight line. Press the left mouse button and follow the shape as required. The lasso allows a free-hand selection of an irregular shape. This is the first usable selection tool for photographs. It is used in the same way, except pressing Shift after you begin selecting limits the selection to perfect circles. This tool works like rectangular select, except it selects a circular or elliptical area. If you press Shift after you begin drawing the selection, only perfect squares can be selected. When you release the mouse button, a frame indicates the selected area. By keeping the left mouse button pressed and dragging the mouse at the same time, mark a rectangular area.

Rectangular select is the simplest selection tool.

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