The Marquee Tool

The Marquee tool allows you to create a selection. A selection is an area you define that masks off the areas outside of the defined area. Sounds complicated but it's not!

To use the Marquee tool just click and drag to create a selection. Ctrl+D will deselect your selection.

The moving line is the border or your selected area. Try these different commands to see how this tool works.

Try using the paint brush inside and outside the border. What happens?

Try copying and pasting your selection. What happens?

Try pressing the backspace key. What happens?

Try pressing Ctrl+Shift+I. What happened?