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Lesson 7 - Making Selections

Experience: This week you'll get experience making selections in Photoshop! This is a critical skill for using Photoshop - so practice!

Objectives
​Section 07-A (Monday)

• Using Photoshop's select subject, select and mask, and the object selection tool.
• Make a selection, save a selection, and reload a saved selection (Exercise B07-02 )

Section 07-B (Tuesday)

• The basic selection tools
• Selection shortcut keys ​
• How to change the hue, saturation, or brightness of any color in your image (Exercise B07-05)

Section 07-C (Wednesday)

• Use the magic wand and quick selection tools to make selections
• Refine a selection you've made to include the fine details (Exercise B07-07)
• Quick Review: What is a mask? How are masks used?

Section 07-D (Thursday)

• Review: Use quick mask mode as a selection tool
• Review: What is a clipping mask and how does it work
• Preparing a Photoshop file to go to a print shop

By the time you get done with this lesson, you should have the skills to do this (see image at right).  Want to try?  Click on any of the small thumbnails to download the zip file of all three images.

OwlLady by Nathan Smith

USU Canvas Resources and Assignment for this week...

USU students, all the assignments, discussions, exercise files, reading assignments for lesson 7 will be found in Canvas - Lesson 7 Module. See the image at right.

​If you're not a registered USU student, and you are working through this lesson on your own, links to the exercise files are provided within the lesson.

View Assignment Scoring Rubrics for Lesson 7

• ​B07-Week-6-Readings---Your-thoughts-and-take-aways
• B07-Lesson-Exercises
• B07-Exhibit-3-critiques​
• ​B07---Portfolio-Exhibit-4
• B07---Portfolio-Exhibit-4-Revision

In this lesson, you'll learn all about selecting objects in Photoshop. I used this idea for my portfolio exhibit, where I wanted to share flyers with teachers about awesome free tools they could use in teaching and learning.

Can you think of a similar idea for creating a layout of your own that uses graphic design principles you've learned so far?

This page last updated July 9, 2020.  This lesson combines my own work (images, text, videos) which are ©2020 by Nathan Smith.  All other images, videos, and cited text sources are curated from the internet, and are publicly available.