Skills development The quick selection tool

& copying a selected area to a new layer

Harvey Johnson

I used the quick selection tool by dragging the cursor over the areas

which I wanted to edit specifically so I could select a specific part of the

image to be used for my manipulation of the image as I wanted the

background to have an effect used on it but not the model.

I First clicked on the quick selection tool from the toolbar which brought up the special cursor & that allowed me to

select the part of the image which the cursor was over.

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3. I then right clicked on the selected area using the mousepad and clicked on layer via copy which then copied

the selected area to a new layer.

4.This resulted in the selected are being created as a duplicate on a new layer

so I could use the chosen effect without affecting the model.