Now that you understand the basics of making selections; it is time to learn how to manipulate them. The main purpose for making selections is to create effects, or creatively modify your images in some way. In order to do this effectively, you must learn to control and manipulate your selections. You may want to refine your selection by adding to it or moving it slightly. You may want to keep the same basic shape for your selection, but make it bigger or smaller. In any case, knowing how to work with selections will make a big difference in the results you can achieve with Photoshop.

 

In this lesson, you will explore how to add to or subtract from a selection, how to move a selection, how to resize or scale a selection, and how to rotate a selection. In addition, you will also learn how to invert, skew, and feather a selection to produce dramatic effects for your images.