Let's talk about selection tool

⭐If you choose Rectangle or Elipse you can make a free-hand shape

⭐If you press Shift key while making the shape, you will get an equal hight and length

⭐ In the Tool property screen -

- choose the second option (add to selection) to make different shapes on the same layer

- choose the third option (remove from selection) to cut shapes from the selected area

- choose the forth option if you want to cut everything else,except the new selection you are doing

⭐Use polyline to make sharp edge selection

⭐ Use the Lasso tool to make a freehand selection

⭐ Use Lasso fill to make colored free hand selection ( you can find this one down below in the Figure Option screen or by pressing U)

⭐ Use the Selection pen to free draw the shape you need

⭐ Press the small button next to the Brush Size, to add or adjust pen pressure

⭐ Don’t forget to increase the last option called Stabilization in case you want straighter lines

⭐ Pen Selection and Erase Selection are similar have the same options

⭐ Use Shrink selection on a Layer that already has something drawn on it. Hide any other visible layers , except that one that you are doing the selection (otherwise nothing will happen)

⭐ Use the Anti-aliasing panel to have a hard outline/edge or a softer line

⭐ Let’s talk about the second panel

- use the first button to deselect the selection

- use the second button to crop the selection (!it will crop the canvas)

* use the third button to select outside the selected are

⭐ Moving on to the next options

- click on expand selected area and choose by how many pixels you woud like to make it bigger

- click on shrink selected area and choose by how many pixels you woud like to make it smaller

- delete selected area will delete anything on the selected layer

- delete outside selection will delete anything you have on that particular layer, outside the selection

⭐ next ones

- cut and paste ( or ctrl+x / ctrl+v) will cut whatever you have on that layer and paste it on a new layer above

- copy and paste ( or ctrl+x / ctrl+v) will copy whatever you have on that layer and paste it on a new layer above

- by pressing scale and rotate you can rotate the object or make it smaller or larger

⭐ By pressing scale/rotate and RIGHT CLICK on the mouse, you get extra panel

- in the extra panel you can Free transform (move each point wherever you want

- Distort option, similar to free transform

- Skew moving 2 connected lines at the same time

- Perspective transform - it will automatically snap to a certain default perspective

⭐ continuation: ⭐ By pressing scale/rotate and RIGHT CLICK on the mouse, you get extra panel

- Flip horizontally the selected area

- Flip vertically the selected area

- You can switch them as many times as you want

⭐ continuation: ⭐ By pressing scale/rotate and RIGHT CLICK on the mouse, you get an extra panel - now ignore this extra panel and go to EDIT - Transform - Mesh Transform

- here you can move each point or add extra points ~ good to know

⭐Last buttons to go

- press fill to instantly fill up the selected area with the first color you have chosen

- Press New tone to add a pattern to the selected area

- go to Object and play around with different settings in the panel, for example, here you can add a gradient.

- check the layer property panel as well to change the pattern, size, color and others

That about all ⭐

Video Process

Here I’m posting the video where I challenge myself to do a full drawing only with selection tools

Thank you for watching

Bye bye~

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