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Uncheck the option if you'd rather just use the M key by itself to switch between them. With this option checked, you'll need to add the Shift key to switch between the two Marquee tools (as well as other tools in the Tools panel that share the same keyboard shortcut). In the General section (the Tools section in Photoshop CS6 and CC), look for the option called Use Shift Key for Tool Switch. On a Mac, you'll find it under the Photoshop menu. On a PC, you'll find the Preferences option under the Edit menu at the top of the screen. Again, this depends on how you have it set up in the Preferences. Both the Rectangular and Elliptical Marquee Tools can be selected by pressing the letter M, and to switch between them, you either press M again by itself or you'll need to press Shift+M. Every tool in the Tools panel can be accessed by pressing a certain letter on your keyboard. You can easily switch between the Rectangular and Elliptical Marquee Tools from your keyboard, although exactly how you do it will depend on how you have things set up in Photoshop's Preferences. Whichever Marquee Tool you selected previously appears in the Tools panel. Click on the Elliptical Marquee Tool in the fly-out menu to select it: To access it, simply click on the Rectangular Marquee Tool, then hold your mouse button down for a second or two until a fly-out menu appears showing you the other tools that are nested behind it.

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This tutorial is from our How to make selections in Photoshop series.ĭownload this tutorial as a print-ready PDF!īy default, the Elliptical Marquee Tool is hiding behind the Rectangular Marquee Tool in the Tools panel. In fact, the only real difference is that the Elliptical Marquee Tool allows us to draw oval or circular selections! If you already know how to use the Rectangular Marquee Tool, think of the Elliptical Marquee Tool as being the same thing, just with extremely rounded corners. It's nearly identical to the Rectangular Marquee Tool and works much the same way. The Elliptical Marquee Tool, which is what we'll be looking at here, is another of Photoshop's basic selection tools. And in the matter of money the General has instructed me to give you a check for whatever seems desirable.In a previous tutorial, we learned how Photoshop's Rectangular Marquee Tool allows us to quickly and easily select objects or areas in a photo based on simple rectangular or square shapes. Regan would like to see you before you leave, sir. He stopped about two feet from me and said gravely: 'Mrs. 'She has a misconception of the purpose of your visit, sir.' His blue eyes gave me a smooth level look. 'I mean it might be cheaper and easier to stand for a certain amount of squeeze. I shrugged into my coat and watched him come. The butler came along the red path with smooth light steps and his back as straight as an ironing board. The chauffeur over by the garage had gone away. I stood up and lifted my coat off the back of the damp wicker chair and went off with it among the orchids, opened the two doors and stood outside in the brisk October air getting myself some oxygen. And it would take an awful lot of chiselers an awful lot of time to rob you of enough so that you'd even notice it.' But nobody's going to break your heart, if it hasn't been done already. 'It's a question of a little money against a lot of annoyance. Carmen is still a minor under her mother's will. You'll make your operation as little of a shock to the patient as possible? There might be several of them, Mr. It seems reasonable enough for removing morbid growths from people's backs.

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