Modifying an Existing Selection
Selections can be as simple as dragging a circle or square with one of the marquee tools to a more complicated freeform selection. Whatever the case, Photoshop allows you to enhance any selection with its useful modification tools. After creating a selection, you can modify it with the various options that Photoshop offers in order to make complex selections easier to use. With selection being an important part of Photoshop process, practice is the key to success.

Modify an Existing Selection
With a selection, click the Select menu, and then select an option:
All.
Selects all pixels within the active document.
Deselect or Reselect.
Removes any pixels from the active document.
Reselect or Inverse.
Lets you select or reverse the previous selection.
All Layers.
Lets you select all the layers in the Layers palette (excluding the Background).
Deselect Layers.
Deselects all layers in the Layers palette.
Similar Layers.
Selects similar layers such as: all type layers, or all shape layers.
Color Range.
Creates a selection based on a color or colors within the active document.
Feather.
Creates a visually softer selection edge.
Modify.
Lets you Modify the border, Expand, Contract, or Smooth the selection in the active document.
Grow.
Lets you increase a selection by adding pixels.
Similar.
Lets you increase a selection by adding non-contiguous pixels.
Transform Selection.
Creates a bounding box around the active selection which you can modify.
Load and Save Selection.
Lets you load or save a previously saved channel mask selection.
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