So in this video, we're gonna be talking about a very important topic in Photoshop, which is selection. So maybe before you start watching the video, you need to go and grab your cup of coffee or whatever you'd like to drink. And it's Liping. So let's start with by Why do we create selections in our file? Well, basically, we do make selections either to create layers, or even to modify some parts within our image. So here, for instance, let's say we need to be changing the color of coffee.

So in that case, we need to only select coffee or that liquid was in the cup, not the entire image. And there are so many tools and techniques to create selections in Photoshop. So in toolbar, we can find some selection tools, like these tools in here, Rectangular Marquee Tool, or Elliptical Marquee Tool, or single row or single column multi tool, and also we have more selection tools in here. Last more Also underneath that one. Plus we do have more selection methods in that selector. And we usually combine tools and techniques to create our own selections, especially if we have a complicated element to select.

However, in that example, we need a very simple tool, which is Elliptical Marquee Tool, that one in here, you can find it under nice Rectangular Marquee Tool, or you can be pressing M or shift m to switch between those two tools. And in order to select only coffee, we need to be clicking and dragging our mouse like that, and I know it's not perfectly aligned so can be pressing also spacebar before we release our mouse to move our selection like that. So we are moving our selection area maybe to center and still maybe it's not 100% perfect so we can zoom in to check that one. In that case, we can be thrown Forming also our selection by going to select Transform Selection and can start adjusting that one pressing Shift to freely move our transformation. Now we can be executing that hitting return. And now we have created a selection and you can see that by Zeus marching ants, as you can imagine Zeus as ants, small ants marching in a circular way in that case, since we have a circular selection, and also if you're still not sure you can be clicking that Quick Mask icon in here to check your selection.

So we're clicking that one. We have everything that's not selected in red, and we have a transparent area including our selection. This mainly for demonstration or review. So let me zoom out. This is how it looks like. If you're not really sure what is selected, you can be disabling that one at a time by clicking that icon once again, or pressing q on keyboard.

So now let's say we need to adjust only that part within our image, you can go to Image Adjustments, then we can be selecting maybe hue saturation. We can be changing color for that specific area by dragging the slider view and we're getting different colors for our coffee. As you can see we have a green coffee, maybe it's ugly in that case, and bluish cyan one. All can get it the other way. This looking really cool as you can see guys, or maybe you can be dragging that slider in here to increase saturation for our color, make it very saturated color or make it very pale or even turn it into a black and white color. So now we have a very grayish coffee as you can See, however, let's give that one back to maybe zero or something like that.

And let's maybe apply that to our image. Now can be also inverting our selection by going to select selecting inverse or pressing Shift command or Shift Ctrl r for Windows. And now we have an inverted selection and we can tell the boy is loose marching ants on border along with our original selection. And we can also double check that one by clicking the quick selection mask. So that area is not selected in that case, pressing q once again to disable that mask and getting back to normal mode. Now it can be also adjusting support by going maybe to image once again adjustments, and it can be selecting maybe desaturate to turn that one into a black and white area.

Now we can be removing our selection by going to select and selecting deselect all Using shortcut Command or Ctrl D, to check our image results do smashing ads. However, let's undo that to get our selection back pressing Command or Ctrl Z to undo. And now as you can see, guys, we can get our colors back once again as we were except by undoing that pressing Command or Ctrl Z multiple times to get our colors back maybe to brown. However, now maybe I did more than 548 steps of undoing and I have to lose all my everything steps. And that's why we don't really apply our adjustments through that image adjustments, which you can find right side in here adjustments. So let's say for instance, we need to be adding hue saturation.

Once again, we can be selecting that one in here, which will be adding that adjustment in a completely separate layer. So can be clicking that one and can be changing color once again, maybe getting our color back Anytime we would like to remove that adjustment to can be holding the player to get our original image once again, or we can get it back on by enabling that there. And this may be called a non destructive editing technique. And we're going to be discovering that in detail later through that course, including adjustment layers, masking or smart objects. However, since we added that adjustment layer while we have a selection within our image, so that created a mask for us through the adjustment layer, which we can find in here and also going to be talking in detail later about masking hold can be restoring our selection once again by pressing Command or Ctrl and clicking on that thumbnail in here to get our selection back once again.

Also, instead we can be saving the selection so we can get it back anytime by going to select Save Selection. And let's call it for instance coffee circle and it's going to be added to a new channel. As you can see in here, then added to Hue Saturation most or new channel can be pressing OK. Now we can be D selecting or selection based on command or control D. Checking or selection once again by going to challenge. Here we have coffee circle, where we can be enabling that one. To check our selections through a quick selection most all can be pressing Command or Control clicking that one to get our selection once again, or while going to select and you can be loading selection. And if you already have more than a selection within your image can be adding that selection to your current selection, or subject or intersect.

We're going to be discussing that now. So let's press Cancel. We already have our selection going back to layers. So before we start modifying or adding to our selection, let me show you guys how we can be creating a layer out of that selection. Simply we can be hovering over our selection while we have our selection tool selected, maybe any of these tools, and we need to make sure that we are selecting or layer as well background layer. Then hovering over our selected area right clicking that area, where we can find more options for our selection, including the Select inverse, or Transform Selection.

However, you can be creating a new layer out of that selected area by checking that option layer via copy or we can be cutting that layer by creating a bunch or a hole through our original layer. However, I really prefer to copy a layer from that original image not to destroy our original image. We can be hiding our background layer to check that layer in here. So we have a duplicate of that selected area in a new layer. And let's re enable or original layer selecting or background copy and maybe let's restore selection once again, and you can be restoring or selection also by pressing Command or Control and clicking on the thumbnail of our newly created layer. Now we have our selection once again, and let's see how we can be modifying our selection.

So maybe selecting another tool Rectangular Marquee Tool, and in order to add or selection can be holding Shift key clicking and dragging over that area, which will be adding to our selection. And now we have that as electives and our background layer. Or maybe you can be removing from our selection by holding Alt or Option key and doing all the way maybe to here to remove the part from our selection. And also we can be activating that as well from here so here we can be adding to our selection by selecting that option. And by default, even without holding Shift key we can be adding to that selection As you can see easy like that, or subtracting from our selection by selecting that option, instead of holding Alt or Option key while drawing that will be removing from our selection, what we draw just like that, or we can only keep intersected areas by selecting that one.

So if I started doing in between, we will only have that area selected. And also let's see how it can be filling that selected area with colors, or even how to apply a stroke to our selected a. So let me get rid of that selection basic model Ctrl Z, and doing maybe another selection in here. And let's assume only to be filling that one was color maybe as a background layer for our logo, or even to add contacts within that area in white text. So we need to have a darker background. So in order to add a third color, maybe to a separate layer, we need to First create a new layer or it will be added to our background layer, then go to Edit, Fill.

And we have contents we can be filling that one either was foreground color, background color, or any desired color from here, or black or 50%, gray or white. Over let's select black, pressing OK. And we can be using opacity for that one. Also, you can be applying a stroke or layer by going to exit stroke. And maybe let's make that five pixels instead and changing our colors to white. Okay, and you can be applying that one either to center outside or inside or you can be changing blending modes for our stroke as well. From here or change its opacity However, I'm not going to be playing with that one since we have already reduced busty, then pressing OK. Now can be zooming in to check our stroke pressing Command or Ctrl D to deselect.

You can see that white stroke in here can be increasing opacity so you can see it better guys