In the last article, I had covered Basic selection tools where I had talked about basic photoshop selection tools. I am going to continue with that and in this article I am going to cover How to select images and other general stuff. This is mostly targeted towards beginners in photoshop only 
Selecting parts of the image for editing in Photoshop resembles pretty much painting a car. When a car is painted, not all parts of it will be covered with paint and these elements will be overlaid with masking type or paper. Proceeding this way, the painter makes sure that he can spray the entire car and those surfaces will not be painted. This resembles the selection process in Photoshop, as it allows you to make changes to the entire image without affecting the parts “covered up”, or you can edit these selected parts without modifying the entire image.
The selection tools present in Photoshop are the Marquee, the Lasso, Magic Wand and the Type Mask. When using these tools on a part of the image, the borders of that part will appear punctuated. After you have selected parts of the picture for editing, any sort of effect can be applied on that piece of image; it can be cut, copied or moved.
Photoshop has included two types of selection, the normal, and the feathered selection.
When using the normal selection, a hard edge is present. This means that when applying any sort of effect to the image, the difference between the zones where the effect was applied and the zone unmodified will be clearly seen. On the contrary, when using the feathered selection type, the made selections will fade out towards their edges. This is used when one wants the filters used to blend into the image without the effect being noticeable.
How to use The Magic Wand Tool of Photoshop
The Magic Wand Tool is another selection tool found in Photoshop. it is a selection tool which is based on color or shades of grey. Thus, it is used when you want to select solid areas of only the same color in order to change the color of that certain area.
Explaining the way the Magic Wand Works is easier to detail when using as an example a grey scale picture. A grey scale image can contain up to 256 shades of gray. When using the Magic Wand Tool on any of these shades, it will also select the neighbor shades, as defined by the user in the tolerance option setting. If you chose to select the Contiguous option box, Photoshop will not also select the neighborly shades, as it will select only the shades within the area which touches the spot clicked by the user.
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