Photoshop's Lesser Known 75 Tips - Selection Tips

Selecting Techniques When using the marquee tool [M] (Marquee Tools), hold down the Shift key to draw a square and a round selection; hold down the Alt key to center the selection from the starting point.

Use the "Reselect" command [Ctrl+Shift+D] (selec » Reselec) to load/restore the previous selection.

Press the Alt key while using the lasso tool to draw a selection. You can switch between the lasso tool and the polygonal lasso tool.

Press the space bar while sketching the selection to move the delineating selection.

It is well known that holding the Shift or Alt key increases or trims the current selection, but do you know that pressing the Shift and Alt keys at the same time can select the intersecting parts of the two selections?

Tip: Hold down the Ctrl key to click on the layer's icon (on the slice board) to load its transparent channel, and hold down Ctrl+Alt+Shift to click on the area where the other layer intersects the transparent channels that select the two layers.

Switching to Quick Mask Mode [Q] to retain the original selection before zooming or copying pictures