Create 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 Selection (Unselect): use this command to temporarily unselect the picture. This will not loose the current selection. Click it again to reactivate the hidden 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