Where is the select arrow in the new photoshop

[dougsooley]

I cannot find any straight up "Select" tool in the toolbar choices? By default, it was always the tool at the very top of the toolbar on the left??

[Jeff Arola]

The Move Tool uses a different icon than some older Photoshop versions did.

If your referring to the Move Tool and still don't see it, go to Edit>Toolbar, click Restore Defaults then Done.

[dougsooley]

I swear to God, in Photoshop, there was always a little arrow button at the top that you clicked and then you clicked on the object o move it around etc etc. Where is that? Now all there is is some Direct Selection Tool. Where is the old Selection Tool???

[Barb Binder]

The Move tool was traditionally at the top to the toolbox. There a few reasons you might not see it. 

It could be under the Artboard tool. Press and hold on the Artboard tool to open the flyout menu and choose the Move tool. 

It could be hidden by the workspace. You can restore the default workspace and the default tool visiblity with

• Window > Workspace > Essentials (Default) and then
• Window > Workspace > Reset Essentials

Or you you can use Edit > Toolbars to move the Move tool back to the first column. Tools in the first column are visible, tools in the second column are hidden.

~Barb

[D Fosse]

@dougsooley 

That's Illustrator.

For Photoshop, as the others said.

[Conrad_C · Accepted solution]

Just more background if you need it…

“Selection Tool” is what Illustrator and InDesign call that top tool. That’s because when you click an object with it in those (vector-based) applications, it’s selected, you see handles.

“Move Tool” is what (pixel-based) Photoshop calls it, and that is not inconsistent. Because if you click a layer on the canvas with that tool in Photoshop, by default it is not selected, but dragging will move it.

On a side note:

Recently some users have wanted or expected Photoshop to work more like Illustrator and InDesign. Two options let that happen. If the Move tool is active and you go up to its options bar and enable the Auto-Select and Show Transform Controls options, now when you click a layer on the canvas it is selected and you see transformation handles. In this mode the Move tool works more like a Selection tool.

But by default, the Move tool moves and does not select, so it can’t be called a Selection tool.