deke.com posts about selection

Deke's Techniques 104: Creating a Vanity Frame

In this week's free movie, Deke shows you how to create a perfectly spaced frame around a graphic (whatever it may be) inside a Photoshop file.

Deke's Techniques 088: Masking with Photoshop's Blunt Instruments

Today I show you how to muscle your way through a mask, and a complex one at that. All it takes is a few blunt tools, lots of brute force, and perseverance.

Deke's Techniques 061: Auto-Collapsing a Selection Outline

In today's video, I show you how to marquee a portion of a flat image file and automatically contract the marquee to fit the selected element. Just like in the old days.

Photoshop Top 40, Feature #25: Selection Calculations

Press the Shift key to add to a selection. Press Alt (or Option) to subtract and Shift+Alt (Shift+Opt) to find an intersection. Helpfully, these tricks apply to layers, channels, and paths. They're a power user's dream.

Photoshop Top 40, Feature #32: The Pen Tool

Newbies select images with the quick select and magic wand tools. Highly automated, but they rarely work. Experts use the pen tool. It's an art form unto itself, but it always works.

Photoshop Top 40, Feature #33: Calculations

One of the oldest, most abstruse commands in Photoshop, Calculations lets you merge two channels to create a new alpha channel. It's a tough nut to crack, but crack it you must if you want to master masking.