The Photoshop Marquee Tool

Video Transcript

"A marquee tool has a lot more options than just being a square marquee tool and I'll show you what I mean. If you look over here at our Photoshop program here we'll go over here and hit our toolbox where our square marquee is. As you see down here there is a little bitty black arrow here at the corner meaning if I click on this and hold it down I'll have more options. As you can see I have the elliptical marquee tool which if I use it, let's deselect by hitting command D to deselect all my items, I can come over here and actually create a circle. Very quick marquee tool selection that I can cut out this hat and move it around wherever I want to use it here. Or, I can come up here and hit and hold down and you can see single row marquee tool which, if I hit command E to quit all my stuff, I can click on this and it will just actually do a cut such as this. So if I hit my command key, as you can see, nothing on this side right here where actually changes only right here within this line here. This is mainly for if you need to line some stuff up. I really haven't found a whole lot of usage for it. Maybe other people will because it exists. As you can see we can slide this back and forth. As it sits here and as you can see only the rectangle and the elliptical marquee tool come with a short cut M. So if you're using your single row marquee tool you're not going to be able to select it. But, always remember when you go to hit your hot key to double check and see which one you have selected because if you have the elliptical tool selected and you want to go for the rectangle marquee tool you'll be quite surprised when you pull it up. Have fun with it and enjoy."