Subtitles of the Movie

There are some other things that you do with selections. But you need to choose these from Select menu, and notice that I actually can't get to these right now since I don't have a selection active. So I will go to my lasso tool and create a selection. Select menu, and I can actually choose to feather this selection right now. Notice when I created this selection, it didn't have a feather associated with it. So you can feather (a) selection after you have it active. Type in how many pixels you want the feather to be. And I will type in 10, and you can see that feather has been activated, if we do something such as fill it with color. So you can see it's a nice soft edge effect. Other options we have on the Select menu are under a sub-menu item for Modify. We can choose to create a border with our selection, and what this does is it creates a little moat for our selection. Type in how many pixels you want to border to be, I will leave it at 10. And you can see it's created this 10 pixel border around my selection. So the active area is inside the marching ants here. I'll undo that. Smooth works with hard-edged selections. So in order to demonstrate that, I'll use the rectangular selection tool. And there is my rectangular selection - you can see I have some hard edges there. I'll go Select>Modify>Smooth, and what this will do - it will smooth over hard edges such as the corner. So it's going to smooth over (a) 10-pixel radius for the corner, and you can see that it's created a nice rounded corner. If I filled this with color or do something to it, it has not created a feathered edge. What it has done actually is smoothed over the corner. And you get the idea right there. Lastly, I have two other options available to me under Modify. I can expand my selection. And what this does is, expands your selection in every direction by 20 pixels, or how many pixels you decide type in here. And conversely I can choose to contract my selection. And this does just the opposite - contracting your selection by however many pixels you have typed in. Grow and Similar really work better when used in conjunction with the magic wand tool and I'll talk about those later.