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time16428540
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January 18, 2019
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Can you tell me how to select?

  • January 18, 2019
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I have photo where with my Brush and shift I draw lines around an object in the photo.  How to I turn those lines around that object into a selection?  I thank you in advance.  Tim

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    Correct answer Semaphoric

    Obviously I don't know what I am doing.  Follow me please.  I have a photo of a painting taken on an angle so the painting is a trapezoid.  Can you give a step by step of how you would select that trapezoid shape in Photoshop 2018?  Appreciate your patience.


    Use the Polygonal Lasso tool:

        

    Click on the corners of the painting in order, either clockwise or counterclockwise, and click back on the starting point. You will see the cursor chang to having a little circle by it. Click, and you will have your trapezoidal selection.

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    Norman Sanders
    Legend
    January 18, 2019

    Choose the Perspective Crop Tool (it is nested with the Crop Tool). Click on the first corner. Drag the cursor and click on 3  more corners. Then float the cursor over the first mark you made and rest for a moment. The word Crop will appear. Click on it.

    Community Expert
    January 18, 2019

    Cmd + Click the layer

    time16428540
    Participant
    January 18, 2019

    Sorry to be obtuse, but still unable. I have the image. I select new layer. I use the brush-shift to draw lines around my object and I tried CMD+click everywhere in the image and the layers window to no avail.  Help?  (I like your drones.)

    Community Expert
    January 18, 2019

    Ctrl + Click on Windows