The operations of copying and cutting out sections of an image in the graphics editor Adobe Photoshop are quite simple actions that can be performed by pressing a couple of buttons on the keyboard. However, in most cases, you have to spend much more time on the preparatory procedure - selecting the area of the picture to which you want to apply the cutting operation. The graphical editor has tools for this with very flexible settings.
Necessary
Graphic editor Adobe Photoshop
Instructions
Step 1
After launching Adobe Photoshop and loading the desired document into it, turn on the oval selection tool. If it was used in the previous selection operation, to re-enable it will be enough to press the key with the Latin letter M. her a few seconds. As a result, a list of tool options attached to the button will open - select the "Oval Region Tool" line.
Step 2
Move the mouse pointer over the upper left corner of the future selection. This is not the point that will lie on the border of the oval, it must correspond horizontally to the leftmost point of the oval, and vertically to its highest point. If it is difficult to determine this place "by eye", turn on the display of horizontal and vertical rulers (Ctrl + R), grids (Ctrl + E) or draw guides - move the cursor over one of the rulers, press alt="Image" and hold down the left button draw a vertical or horizontal line. For greater accuracy, you can mark the rightmost point of the selected area in the same way.
Step 3
Move the cursor while holding down the left mouse button from the upper left to the lower right points selected in the previous step. When you release the button, the size of the oval will be fixed, but you can move it using the navigation buttons - the arrow keys or the mouse. You can change the strictly oval shape of the selected area - tilt, rotate, reduce, distort, etc. To do this, open the "Selection" section in the menu and select the "Transform selected area" item. Then right-click inside the oval and select one of more than a dozen transformation options from the context menu. Change the selection in the selected way by moving the anchor points on the frame around the oval with the mouse.
Step 4
When finished with the formation of the selection area, select the desired one in the Layers panel and press the Ctrl + X key combination or select the "Cut" item in the "Editing" section of the Photoshop menu.
