An army
of marching ants defines the border of your selection, as
shown here.
CREATE SELECTIONS WITH THE POLYGONAL LASSO TOOL
When you create a selection with the Polygonal Lasso tool, you click to define
each point of the selection. Photoshop Elements then connects the points to
define the boundary of the selection.
1. Select the Polygonal Lasso tool.
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As a rule, it??™s better to create the selection with no
feathering, especially if you??™re going to edit the selection.
Apply feathering by choosing Select | Feather, which
opens the Feather Selection dialog box, from which you
can specify the feather radius in pixels.
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Press the SPACEBAR momentarily to move the selection
while sizing. Release the SPACEBAR when the selection
is in the desired position, and continue resizing.
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2. In the options bar, type a value between 0 and 250 in the Feather field. This setting
determines how much feathering Photoshop Elements applies to the selection. When
you feather a selection, you determine how soft the edge of the selection will be. The
default value of 0 produces a hard-edged selection, while higher values gradually
blend the selection into the surrounding pixels.
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