Creating Selections

> To create a selection Focus Photoeditor gives you a variety of tools that can also been used in conjunction.

> The Selection Panel:

> Let's first take a look to the selections panel in the top toolbar of the program:

> From Left to Right the commands present on this panel are:

> - Disable/Enable Selection: use this command to temporarily deactivate a selection. The current selection, will not be lost after that. Click it again to reactivate the selection.

> - Invert Selection: use this to select the complementary region of the selection, that is actually all pixels that were selected will become unselected and viceversa.

> - Undo Selection: if you have made many selections, you can pick a previous one by clicking this undo button.

> - Redo Selection: It will pick the next selection in the undo list.

> - Select Mode combo box: you can choose if the newly created selections should replace, be added to or be subtracted from the existing one.

> Other commands about selections are present in the Selection menu.

> Tools to Create Selections:

> Create Selection tools:

> > -Select by color

> > This selects area of similar color in all the picture, using a tolerance.

> > -Select by Magic Wand

> > This selects area of similar color locally, using a tolerance.

> > -Select by painting

> > You can paint a selection with this tool.

> > -Select by Lasso

> > You can create an irregular region-selection, by defining with a pen its border.

> > or using geometric selection tools like:

> > -Rectangular, Elliptic, Linear or Pencil selections