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Select a rectangular or elliptical area of pixels

  1. Select the Marquee or Oval Marquee tool.

  2. Set the Style and Edge options in the Property inspector.

  3. Drag to draw a selection marquee, which defines the pixel selection.

    • To draw additional square or circular marquees, hold down Shift as you drag the Marquee or Oval Marquee tool. If Live marquee is turned on while you make a series of selections, the Live marquee feature affects only the last selection in the series.

    • To draw a marquee from a center point, deselect any other active marquees, and then hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) as you draw.