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Summary: The marquis selection tool in Photoshop is one way to select part of an image. Learn to use the marquis tool in Photoshop CS3 in this free Photoshop tutorial video.
Julio Costilla has been shooting photos since the age of 14. His dream was to become a professional photographer before the age of 25, which he made with years to spare. He owns and...read more
"Adobe Photo Shop is a registered trademark of Adobe systems Incorporated and I am in no way affiliated with Adobe. Ok so on this next tutorial here I am going to show you how to use the Marquis tool. To make a rectangle on the bottom side of your little picture here. So what you want to do is you want to click up here to the rectangle Marquis tool or you can hold on to M cause that is the short cut and we're going to make a rectangle at the bottom right hand corner or whatever corner you want the page curl to be. On this picture I want it to be in on the right hand side. Now if your picture is like my picture where is an extreme rectangle? As you can see it is a lot higher than it is wider. Then this is the kind of rectangle you want to make on your picture. As you can see it's kind of mimicking what we have going on as far as my picture looks. We don't want to make an exact square. We want to make a rectangle and that right there actually looks pretty good. So let go of that. As it, as you can see there's a small rectangle that is selected on the bottom right hand corner of our picture and this is the kind of look we're we've we want and basically I'm going to move on the next part of this tutorial and I am going to show you guys how to add a gradient to this."
eHow Article: The Marquis Tool in Photoshop CS3