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Where is the select arrow in the new photoshop
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??
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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.
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