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There may come a time when you need to make a very complicated selection with one of the drawing tools here and you might want to save that selection so that later on you can reload it and then continue working. Now why would somebody want to do that, let's pretend for example, someone hired you to draw some grass and I'm just gonna make the world's craziest and easiest to draw grass ever in history. But once I fill this with color what if I have to come back and change that color later on. And let's make believe I was tracing over this in an image that was provided to me. So do I really want to trace over and over again each time the client wants me to change it or do I want to simply with a button press boom, reload it. Well the first thing I'm gonna do is I'm going to change this guy by going to the shapes menu to a selection. So make believe once again that this was a picture someone gave me and I'm gonna convert this pen drawing that I just did to a selection and what I'm gonna do before I even fill it in with color is I'm gonna go to my select menu and I'm going to save this selection. And let's go ahead and call it grass. I'm gonna click OK, and now I'm going to fill in with a color so, let's go ahead and choose a grassy green kind of thing, maybe it's a children's book. So I'll grab my paint bucket tool and we'll fill this guy in. OK so boom, it's filled in, I press command or control D to deselect that, I turn it into the client and the client says dude I hate the color make it a little lighter. So here I am looking at my tools here and I think to myself OK I can use the magic wand tool, but make believe there was a gradient in there, how would I go about reselecting that. How would I go about grabbing this again without going insane each time, instead of retracing it or using the magic wand tool. Well I can go to my select menu and I can choose load selection and I can choose if I had more then one selection, grass, whatever the other thing was, maybe a bee or an ant or whatever. Make believe this is a children's illustration. I'll go ahead and click OK and there it is, it's loaded and now I can double click on my swatches, the guy says he wants a lighter color, I click OK, I grab my paint bucket tool and I refill it. Now that's very cool, now something even cooler, you're gonna like to see more, I'm gonna deselect this, I'm gonna select all, and delete all of it. You're thinking to yourself oh no it's gone, what do I do now. Well mistakes do happen, so what if you accidentally delete the grass selection on the computer, not a problem, it's still stored, it stays there so I can go to select, load selection, choose my grass again, and there I am. I am able to load that and fill it again with the color and do whatever I need to for the client. So, please do me a favor, use the save selection whenever your working on a very complicated illustration that has multiple parts that might need changes in the future because saving a selection can really save you a lot of time in the future because trust me sometimes when you think you have things overlapping, say I have more grass here and I had other elements like flowers and trees and I accidentally forgot to use layers for example, or I accidentally collapsed all my layers. I can load each selection and change the artwork without having to go crazy so it's a great selection tool, definitely use it, it will save you headaches in the long run.