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Photoshop

Selections

Review Questions

1. Describe the purpose of a selection.
2. Identify all the selection tools and briefly describe how they function.
3. What are the benefits of creating a selection based on a path?
4. Describe how to add to, remove from and move a selection.
5. What does adding a Feather radius to your selection do?
6. How do you create a perfectly circular selection?
7. How would you apply feathering before a selection is drawn? After?
8. Can anti-aliasing be applied to a selection after it has been created?
9. When using the Magic Wand tool, what adjustment would you make to include a greater number of pixels in your selection?
10. When drawing a path with the Pen tool, how do you complete a closed path? How do you complete an open path?
11. What is the purpose of direction lines in a path?
12. How is a path converted to a selection?
13. Name four criteria on which you can make selections using the Colour Range dialog.
14. Name the six ways that a selection can be transformed by using the Transform Selection command.
15. How would you scale a selection while retaining its width-to-height ratio?
16. Holding down the Shift key while rotating the Transform bounding box will have what effect?
17. What is the difference between the Grow and Similar commands?

Bonus Questions

1. If you had a photographic image of a multi-coloured flower on a solid white background, what do you think the most efficient method would be to make a selection of the flower without including the background?
2. Let's say you have an image that is 300x300 and you want to draw a square selection that is 100x100 and have it perfectly centred in the document. How would you go about it?
3. Can a selection made with the Rectangular Marquee tool be anti-aliased?
4. How can you toggle between the Lasso and Polygonal Lasso tools in the middle of making a selection?
5. Holding down the Shift key while using the Polygonal Lasso tool will have what effect?

Review Answers

To help you determine if you are on the right track, the answers to the Review and Bonus questions have been provided. Do all the work on the questions page before you take a look at the answers.

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