This tutorial is from our How to make selections in Photoshop series.ĭownload this tutorial as a print-ready PDF! As the name implies, the Rectangular Marquee Tool is perfect for times when you need to draw a selection in the shape of a rectangle or a square.
In this tutorial, we'll look at one of the most common and easiest selection tools to use, the Rectangular Marquee Tool, one of Photoshop's basic selection tools that, along with the Elliptical Marquee Tool and the Polygonal Lasso Tool, is designed for making selections based on simple geometric shapes. I mentioned in that same tutorial that Photoshop gives us lots of different tools for selecting things in an image, some basic and some more advanced (although it's funny how even so-called 'advanced' tools can seem quite basic once you're comfortable with them). Where we see independent objects, Photoshop sees only pixels of different colors, so we use Photoshop's various selection tools to select objects or areas in a photo that Photoshop would never be able to identify on its own. We learned that Photoshop sees the world very differently from how you and I see it. In a previous tutorial, we looked at reasons why we need to make selections at all in Photoshop.