Does Illustrator have an equivalent to Photoshop's rectangular marquee selection tool?

[rleereserve]

I am trying to select just a piece of an image in an Illustrator file to copy and re-scale, but I can't find the equivalent to Photoshop's rectangular marquee selection tool. Is there such a tool? Otherwise, I guess I can make the edits in photoshop and place in illustrator. Thanks!

[Monika Gause]

So you want to edit a placed pixel based image? Better take Photoshop for the task

[Kurt Gold]

Vector programmes ≇ Raster programmes

There are workarounds, but if you want to do yourself a favour, just do it in Photoshop or another Raster application.

[csanfilippo01]

I wish there was a way to accomplish this. I would really prefer to keep my image vectored, rather than rasterizing it.

[Mike_Gondek · Accepted solution]

There is a magic lasso tool, which allows you to select subsectioons of vector points, whch may help you, depnding on exactly what you are working on.

[csanfilippo01]

That may be the solution! Thanks Mike.