How to Select More Than One Area in Photoshop
Adobe's Photoshop graphics software provides sophisticated selection options. If you have two elements in your photograph that you want to edit in the same way, by making them darker or lighter, for instance, you can select them both and apply any edits or alterations to them at the same time. You can also select areas you wish to protect, and then invert the selection. Any edits would then apply to the rest of the photograph, but the areas you originally selected would remain unchanged.
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Instructions
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Open your photograph or graphic document in Photoshop.
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Choose a tool to make your selection from the tool bar on the side of the screen. The "Rectangular Marquee" and "Elliptical Marquee" tools will select areas with geometric precision. The "Lasso" tool allows you to grab a selection freehand with the mouse or trackpad. The "Magnetic Lasso" will latch on to a high contrast line in the photograph, like that between a bright wall and shadowed street.
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Make the selection of the first area using your mouse or trackpad.
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Depress the "Shift" key, and make a second selection. Both areas will remain selected. Repeat as necessary, holding down the "Shift" key for each selection.
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Make your edits as necessary.
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Reverse your selection if you wish by clicking "Select" and then "Inverse" from the top menu.
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Click on "Select" and then "Deselect" from the top menu to clear your selections when you have finished your edits.
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