Adobe Photoshop Quick Selection Tool
To save time in Photoshop CS6, Adobe has a great tool, the Quick Selection Tool. Think of it as a combo Brush, Magic Wand, Lasso tool. Easy to use — with surprisingly good results — it’s sure to become part of your selection arsenal.
- In Photoshop CS3, Adobe introduced the Quick Selection Tool and nested it in with the Magic Wand, so if you're using CS3 or later (I'm using Photoshop CS5 here), you'll need to click on the Quick Selection Tool in the Tools panel and keep your mouse button held down for a second or two until a fly-out menu appears.
- Jul 18, 2018 Learn how to use the time-saving Quick Selection tool in Adobe Photoshop CC to select parts of a photo, and apply different adjustments to each selection. Save time and effort making a selection with the Quick Selection tool.
- The Quick Selection Tool works by allowing you to paint a selection, with the selection snapping to details as you select. Work with multiple layers and areas of fuzzy detail with help from the easy-to-follow Photoshop tutorial above.
- Quick Selection tool. In the options bar, click one of the selection options: New, Add To, or Subtract From. New is the default option if nothing is selected. After making the initial selection, the option changes automatically to Add To. To change the brush tip size, click the Brush pop-up menu in the options bar.
- Jan 15, 2019 (Cloud user of Photoshop CC 2015) The quick selection tool is not working properly. Either it looks like it is selecting but the selection disappears as soon as I un-click my mouse. Same for the magic wand. In addition, if I do manage to make and see a selection, I cannot fill with a solid colour. Only the outline gets coloured.
To make short work of selecting by using this tool, follow these steps:
Quick Selection Tool In Adobe Photoshop Cs
Jan 16, 2016 Adobe Support Community: Photoshop: quick selection tool not selecting; quick selection tool not selecting sophiekphoto. Dubai duty free offers. Jan 16, 2016 (Cloud user of Photoshop CC 2015) The quick selection tool is not working properly. Either it looks like it is selecting but the selection disappears as soon as I un-click my mouse. (Cloud user of Photoshop.
Selection Tool In Adobe
Select the Quick Selection tool from the Tools panel.
The tool looks like a wand with a marquee around the end. It shares the Magic Wand tool’s flyout menu. You can also press the W key, and then press Shift+W until you get the tool.
If you’re making a new selection, be sure that the selection option is set to New Selection or Add to Selection on the Options bar.
Select your desired brush settings from the Brush picker on the Options bar.
If your image has layers and you want to make a selection from all the layers, select the Sample All Layers option.
If you leave this option unselected, you select only from the current layer.
Select the Auto-Enhance option to have Photoshop assist you by automatically refining your selection by implementing an algorithm.
Click and drag over the desired areas of your image.
Your selection grows while you drag.
If you stop dragging and click in another portion of your image, your selection includes that clicked area.
Credit: ©iStockphoto.com/shironosov Image #13814477Change your selection as needed.
You have three options to change your selection:
To add to your selection, hold down the Shift key while dragging across your desired image areas. (If the Add to Selection option is selected on the Options bar, you don’t have to hold down the Shift key.)
To delete from your selection, press the Alt (Option on the Mac) key while dragging across your unwanted image areas.
You can also select the Add to Selection and Subtract from Selection options on the Options bar.
If you need to further fine-tune your selection, click the Refine Edges option on the Options bar.