The Rectangle, elliptical, single row, and single column tools.

The marquee tools

The marquee tools are used for a wide variety of things in photoshop. The tools come in 4 flavors, rectangular, elliptical, single row, and single column. There is also the crop tool which we will touch on in a few. The marquee's are used generally for selecting areas of the image, or to draw shapes of the respective types.

Options

Shift constrains aspect ratio if no other selection is active. Shift adds to the selection if another selection is active. Using the ctrl keys, will allow you to make cutouts of the shapes you create, and using the ALT keys in combination with the marquee, you can create shapes using the background color as a fill.

Alternates

Rectangular: sets marquee shape to rectangular.
Elliptical: sets marquee shape to elliptical.

Single Row: only a single row of pixels are selected.

Single Column: only a single column of pixels are selected.

• Marquee tool
• Move tool
• Lasso tool
• Magic wand tool
• Crop tool
• Slice tool
• Airbrush tool
• Paintbrush and Pencil tools
• Stamp tool
• History Brush
• Eraser tool
• Gradient and bucket
• Blur, sharpen, smudge
• Dodge, burn, sponge
• Path tool
• Text tool
• Pen and anchor
• Shape and line
• Notes tool
• Eyedropper, measure
• Hand tool
• Zoom tool
• Color Picker
• Mode tools

Photoshop Tutorials

	Creating spooky text - 6+7
	Creating 3d Text - 6.0
	Creating Engraved text - 6.0
	Working with colormasks - 6.0
	Using the quick mask tool - 6.0
	Creating perfect rounded edges - 6.0
	Slicing a graphical interface - 6.0
	Creating torn and burnt images - 6.0
	Creating realistic wires - 6.0