The only difference is that the result will be elliptical instead of rectangular. Now the elliptical marquee tool behaves, essentially, identically to the rectangular marquee tool in terms of the overall operation of the tool, the options, the settings that are available for that tool. That will bring up a fly out menu where you can then select the elliptical marquee tool. We'll start off by selecting the elliptical marquee tool and so I will click and hold my mouse, or you could also right click on the button for the rectangular marquee tool on the tool box. Drag the Rectangle Marquee Tool over an area of the Single Marquee Tool line and release the mouse.- The rectangular marquee tool in Photoshop, of course, enables you to create selections of rectangular shapes, but there is a related tool called the elliptical marquee tool, that enables you to create selections that, of course, have elliptical or even circular shapes. The Subtract mode of the Rectangle Marquee Tool means that any portion of the selected line of pixels within the perimeter of the rectangle will be deleted. With the Rectangular Marquee Tool selected, click on the Subtract option just below the menu bar (big red arrow below). You’ll need to depress the cursor over the Marquee Tool icon to reveal the Rectangular Marquee Tool. ![]() Once you have your Single Marquee Tool lined up, select the Rectangular Marquee Tool from the Photoshop toolbar. Again, I’m using the Single Row Marquee Tool but feel free to experiment with the Single Column Marquee Tool instead. Select the Single Column or Single Row Marquee Tool and align the Single Marquee Tool with a hard line in your image. Bridges and streets are good subjects to start with. This time, open a photograph featuring straight, hard lines. The next step is to fit our stretched pixels into the landscape of the image. When you’ve finished stretching the selection, press enter and there you go. Looks kind of neat, right? You’ll see that whole row of pixels will stretch as far as you drag the mouse. Click on the line where the opposing arrows appear and slowly drag the cursor down over the image. You can also select Free Transform by right-clicking on the dotted line of the Marquee Tool.Īfter you click on the Free Transform option, the cursor will appear as two opposing arrows when you hover over the Marquee Tool line. Once you have your pixels selected, click on Edit in the menu bar and select Free Transform. This outlines the row of selected pixels that line up with the point you clicked on. A dotted line stretching across your image will appear. With the Single Row Marquee Tool selected, click on an area in your image that you think is interesting. I’m going to use the Single Row Marquee Tool, but you can easily come back and experiment further once you get the hang of the technique. ![]() The Marquee Tool panel will reveal a choice between the Single Row Marquee Tool and the Single Column Marquee Tool. You may have to click and hold down the mouse over the Rectangular or Elliptical Marquee Tool until it reveals a small menu. On the Photoshop tools pallet, select the Single Marquee Tool. This means that if your history is so stretched that you can’t return to a certain spot during editing, there’s no going back. The process applies an effect directly to the layer you have selected. Pixel stretching, however, is by nature a destructive technique. This process is called non-destructive editing. Lasso tool Click the button, then click and drag your screen to make selections freehand. Move tool Click the button, then click and drag your screen to move your layer, selection, etc. To preserve layers, photographers use Adjustment Layers to apply adjustments to an image without altering it directly. Basic Tools Are : Selection tools Marquee tool Click the button, then click and drag your screen to select a square or rectangular area. ![]() It’s important that you don’t apply the pixel stretching technique directly to the original image in case you need to revert back to earlier stages of the project. Right-click on the Background layer and select Duplicate Layer. ![]() I’m using this photograph of blossoms because its colorful and I’m excited that it’s finally spring, here in Australia.ĭuplicate your original image, which will be labeled as Background in the Layers panel. It doesn’t have to be anything special, just an image with a few varying tones or colors. Getting startedįirst, open an image in Photoshop. Pixel stretching is one way to investigate the construction of a digital image through creative means.Ĭompared to other glitch-style editing techniques, pixel stretching is pretty straight-forward. The process involves selecting a single row or column of pixels and stretching them out over an image to create a warped, surrealistic visual effect. The results highlight the nuances of a digital image and explore the action of altering photographs through non-traditional means. And as technology progresses, so will the potential for image making. As photographers, we’re all too aware of the abundance of ways to edit a photograph in post-production.
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