Working with selectionsSelect an article:Select an article:ON THIS PAGEQuickly select a person or thing in your photoUse selection toolsRefine EDGES of a selectionDelete a selected areaSelect and deselect areas using commandsApplies to: Photoshop ElementsLast Published: 3 October 2019Learn how to automatically select a subject in a photo or use the AVAILABLE selection TOOLS to select a part of the photo that you can further edit.A selection is an area of a photo that you define. When you create a selection, the area is editable (for example, you can lighten one part of a photo without affecting the rest). You can make a selection with either a selection tool or a selection command. A selection border, which you can hide, surrounds the selection. You can change, copy, or delete pixels INSIDE the selection border, but you can’t touch areas outside the selection border until you deselect the selection.Adobe Photoshop Elements provides selection tools for different kinds of selections. For example, the Elliptical Marquee tool selects CIRCULAR and elliptical areas, and the Magic Wand tool can select an area of similar colors with one click. More complex selections can be made with one of the Lasso tools. You can even smooth the edges of a selection with feathering and anti-aliasing.