The selection tools are used to facilitate the process of making selections of shapes, colors, and objects inside of Photoshop, and positioning them in the working image area. With tools like the magnetic lasso and magic wand, Photoshop packs a powerful array of selection gadgets!

A list of methods most commonly used for creating selection masks.

in this tutorial, you'll learn how to make hair selection within 3 minutes

Learn how to use the marquee tools in Photoshop.

Today I am telling you about How to Create Photoshop Mechanical Tools Icon

Learn how to create realistic hair using only the tools provided in Photoshop.

Shows you how to take a glass bottle and make it appear in a different photo by using Photoshop's masking tools.

This tutorial is part 1 of a 4 part series dedicated to helping you learn Adobe Photoshop. It covers the fundamentals such as opening up documents and working with the tools.

Photoshop offers a large selection of tools and features for retouching photographs and images. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use the common touch-up tools.

This new tool makes turning a color photo into a stunning black and white photo easy.

The Tools palette layout contains 60 separate tools. Double-clicking any tool will automatically display the Tool options palette and from there you can select individual options for that tool

This tutorial explains how to do vector, engraved text, watermark, barcodes, colorize, and pixel shadow quickly!

In this tutorial we will design a perfume. The lesson will be covering How to Use Brushes in Photoshop. We will be also using certain other technique to create a complete underwater effect.

In this photoshop tutorial we are going to pain a quick painting. It was done using a mere mouse. The theme of the painting is warm seasons of the year and it has a style of a child drawing done digitally in a short time – about 20 minutes.

Find out what's new in Photoshop CS3 Toolbox. Quickly access to every tools explanation using virtual toolbox and also links to detail tool explanation pages. Include new Quick Selection tool and Count Tool.

This tutorial will show you how to design backgrounds with ease of future adjustments in mind. Applying these techniques in your designs will make color adjustments a breeze, sizing/scaling changes in your background incredibly easy, and give you unprecedented control over how your background looks with very little effort involved.

This tutorial will show you a quick way to apply your copyright watermark to an image using a brush.

What can you do to fix a poorly defined background in an otherwise great portrait? You have a wide variety of options, but the quickest (and easiest) way for me is to desaturate the background to make the foreground stand out more.

This tutorial will explain how to randomize a selection to obtain irregular edges. A free Photoshop Action file is included for download.

How do you make wierd selections? Sometimes you need to 'cut' one selection out of another; this tutorial teaches you how.