1. Rectangular Marquee Tool - holding down the shift key to constrain proportion all around.
2. An Ellipse, or a circle when holding down the shift key.
3. Hold the shift key after you start dragging.
4. The Magic Wand.
5. False. It uses Tolerance, Anti-aliased, contiguous and Use All Layers.
6. It sets a height-to-width ratio.
7. To add, you would Shift-drag with one of the marquee or lasso tools.
To subtract, you would press Alt (win) or Option (mac) while using one of
selection tools.
8. In the Rectangular Marquee options box, select Fixed Size under Style, then input the width and height numbers you want.
9. By changing the value of the Edge Contrast in the options bar.
10. By changing the width, in the options bar, to a greater number, which gives you leeway as to how close to the edge you need to be.
11. Only the immediate area you're working on that meets the criteria of the initial pixel you clicked on. If you have three flowers, Red, Pink and Red, and you click on the first red flower, it does not apply to the second red flower.
12. Anti-aliasing and Feathering.
13. Anti-aliasing mimics the appearance of edges you expect to see in a sharply focused photograph.
Feathering gradually dissipates the selection outline, giving it a blurry edge.
14. Either by setting the amount in the Feather box on the options bar, or by Select > Feather and inputting an amount in the pop-up.
15. False.
16. a. After making a selection with one of the Marquee tools, you can go to Edit > Transform or Edit > Free Transform, then you can grab any of the handles to drag accordingly.
b. Once an area is selected, select the Move Tool, then in the Options Bar check off the Bounding Box, then you can use shortcut keys to make the various Transformations options offered in the Edit > Transform menu:
*Alt+Drag (Win) Option+Drag (Mac), to Scale from the center point. *Shift+Drag a corner handle to scale proportionately.
*Flip the selection by dragging one corner over the other (top over bottom or left over right).
*To rotate, drag outside the selection (cursor should turn into a curved cursor).
*Control+Drag (Win) Command+Drag (Mac) a side handle to Skew. *Use Control or Command + Shift to to constrain the slant proportionately.
*Control+Drag (Win) or Command+Drag (Mac) to Distort
*Control+Shift+Drag (win) or Command+Shift+Drag (Mac) a corner handle to change Perspective.
c. Or, you can command+click (Mac), (CTRL+click in CS2/OS 10.3), Right click (Win), on the selection to bring up a context menu, then select Transform or Free Transform.
17. By having individual elements on its own layer keeps it all separate which gives more options on what to do with it, makes it easier to edit, to change it, delete it, and use it in another document.
18. In the Layer Palette, the Active layer is highlighted.
19. You would link or group the layers together. As of version CS2, you can now select more than one layer.
20. Select the layers, then Layer>Merge Layers.
21. By reordering layers. Either by dragging the layer up or down in the Layer Palette or use the menu option Layer>Arrange Submenu.
22. It "highlights" a specific area in an image that you want to work with and restricts the editing to that area. Great tool to use for touch ups when copying from other files to place in new ones.
23. Paint with white to add to the area.
24. So that you can actually see the Feathered result before committing and possibly having to redo it.
25. By selecting a Marquee tool you want, then setting the Feather amount in the Options Bar, then go into Quick Mask mode.
Use Select > Feather, set amount, Quick Mask mode.
Or use the Gaussian Blur to set different value amounts to see each as they happen while in Quick Mask mode.
