Subtitles of the Movie

We can make basic selections by choosing one of the four marquee tools right here. Press and hold on whichever marquee tool you are seeing, and you can see the 4 different types of selection marquee tools available to us. We have the rectangular marquee tool, elliptical and the single row or single column marquee tool. These two tools, the last two tools will allow us to select a single row or column of pixels, regardless of your document's resolution. I also want to emphasize the point that whenever we choose a particular tool from our tool's palette, the options bar at the top of my computer screen will update to show me options and parameters for this particular tool. In this case, I can add a feather radius to soften the edge of my selection and choose from different styles of selection. Normal, fixed, aspect ratio, or fixed size. So I'm jut going to stick with normal, which will allow me to draw out a freehand selection. And with my rectangular marquee tool selected, I'm going to click and drag diagonally across my document and you can see that I am just creating a rectangular selection. One nice feature of the selection tool is once I have a selection active on my document, and I know a selection is active by these dancing ants, this animated marquee effect, I can reposition the selection by moving into it and clicking and dragging anywhere on my document with the selection marquee tool. I can also reposition my selection by pressing any of the arrow keys. So the up key will move it single pixels, in single pixel increments in this case - 1 pixel up. To the right, bottom and left. And if you want to add the shift to it, it will jump in 10 pixel increments. Well, I'm going to deselect this selection by going to select menu and choosing deselect, or command + 'D' and it will de-activate my selection. And I want to do that to show you some of the ways you can use the marquee tool. If I hold the shift key down while I drag diagonally out, it will constrain my selection to a perfect shape, in this case a square. I'll deselect that again, and show you another technique which is adding the option key while dragging out will drag a selection from the center, as opposed to from side to side. And of course if you still have your mouse button down and are dragging the selection out, if you add the shift key of course it will constrain it to that perfect shape, in this case the square. So the same type of effects can be generated using the elliptical marquee tool, so I'm going to deselect that and you can see how that works. Deselect that and hold down the shift key while I am dragging out to create a perfect circle. Another nice feature of working with selections is I can add to my selection by pressing on the shift key, and notice when I press down on the shift key my cursor has a small plus next to it. Indicating that if I drag out a selection now and let go, I will add to my current selection. Holding down the option key on the Mac or the Alt key on the PC will do just the opposite - it will take away from our selection. And if you hold both the shift and option key down, or shift and Alt key on the PC, you can create an intersection with your next selection. You can achieve these same types of effects by choosing one of these buttons at the top here. The first button is the default. And any time you drag out a selection it will delete the last selection in favor of your new selection. But if I want to add a selection without choosing one of the keyboard combinations, I just need to go up and choose this mode. And now I will be adding to this selection. I could even choose from a different selection marquee. And the way I remember this is, if I want to add, I press the shift key and that makes my normal letters bigger into capital letters. So I'm adding to my selection.