There are lots of different ways to select items in Illustrator, including the Selection and Direct Selection tools, the Select Similar options, and the Layers panel. We'll explore the various options in this video.

This tutorial by Adobe Community Professional Tom Green shows how to work with the selection tools in Flash Catalyst. He shows how to select, align, and manipulate objects and shapes.

Russell Brown uses the Camera Fill feature to create beautiful textured backgrounds and layers. Learn to create custom patterns and textures using your tablet camera and Photoshop Touch.

See how Photoshop CS5 easily selects intricate image elements such as hair; eliminates background color around selection edges; and automatically varies selection edges and creates perfect masks using new refinement tools.

Learn how to draw shapes and scenes in accurate 1-, 2-, or 3-point linear perspective to create the look of realistic depth and distance with the new Perspective drawing tools in Adobe Illustrator CS5. See how the new Perspective Grid tool supports drawing directly on planes of true perspective and the Perspective Selection tool allows objects to be moved, scaled, duplicated, and transformed dynamically in perspective.

Discover the many design, motion, and digital imaging possibilities in Adobe Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended with Photoshop Product Manager, Bryan O’Neil Hughes. Explore the latest hot features in this hands-on session that will cover Content-Aware Fill, improved selection tools, Puppet Warp, painting tools, 3D capabilities, and so much more. You'll learn how to create mind-blowing effects — the same ones used by leading professionals today — and get your work done fast.

In this video you will learn about altering the curve of a motion in Flash CS5.

Masking tools in Photoshop are very powerful, but there are times when you need to make manual adjustments. This tutorial gives you the tools you need to understand how to tweak and mask and paint in isolated areas.

Learn how to use manual selection tools to isolate an area of your image for making local adjustments.

Learn about tools in Photoshop Elements that can create selections automatically.

Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest Film Festival selection. This work was created over three weeks as part of the Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest and premiered March 7, 2009 at a special screening at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, CA. Thanks to Adobe volunteers Tami Williams, Renee Coca, Charles Liss and Bruce Bowman, Cinequest volunteers and Adobe Youth Voices mentors Alex Yamamoto, Peter Pheap and Keith Morikawa.

Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest Film Festival selection. This work was created over three weeks as part of the Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest and premiered March 7, 2009 at a special screening at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, CA. Thanks to Adobe volunteers Tami Williams, Renee Coca, Charles Liss and Bruce Bowman, Cinequest volunteers and Adobe Youth Voices mentors Alex Yamamoto, Peter Pheap and Keith Morikawa.

Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest selection. This work was created over three weeks as part of the Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest and premiered March 7, 2009 at a special screening at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, CA. Thanks to Adobe volunteers Tami Williams, Renee Coca, Charles Liss and Bruce Bowman, Cinequest volunteers and Adobe Youth Voices mentors Alex Yamamoto, Peter Pheap and Keith Morikawa.

Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest Film Festival selection. This work was created over three weeks as part of the Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest and premiered March 7, 2009 at a special screening at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, CA. Thanks to Adobe volunteers Tami Williams, Renee Coca, Charles Liss and Bruce Bowman, Cinequest volunteers and Adobe Youth Voices mentors Alex Yamamoto, Peter Pheap and Keith Morikawa.

Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest Film Festival selection. This work was created over three weeks as part of the Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest and premiered March 7, 2009 at a special screening at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, CA. Thanks to Adobe volunteers Tami Williams, Renee Coca, Charles Liss and Bruce Bowman, Cinequest volunteers and Adobe Youth Voices mentors Alex Yamamoto, Peter Pheap and Keith Morikawa.

Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest Film Festival selection. This work was created over three weeks as part of the Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest and premiered March 7, 2009 at a special screening at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, CA. Thanks to Adobe volunteers Tami Williams, Renee Coca, Charles Liss and Bruce Bowman, Cinequest volunteers and Adobe Youth Voices mentors Alex Yamamoto, Peter Pheap and Keith Morikawa.

Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest Film Festival selection. This work was created over three weeks as part of the Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest and premiered March 7, 2009 at a special screening at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, CA. Thanks to Adobe volunteers Tami Williams, Renee Coca, Charles Liss and Bruce Bowman, Cinequest volunteers and Adobe Youth Voices mentors Alex Yamamoto, Peter Pheap and Keith Morikawa.

Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest Film Festival selection. This work was created over three weeks as part of the Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest and premiered March 7, 2009 at a special screening at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, CA. Thanks to Adobe volunteers Tami Williams, Renee Coca, Charles Liss and Bruce Bowman, Cinequest volunteers and Adobe Youth Voices mentors Alex Yamamoto, Peter Pheap and Keith Morikawa.

Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest Film Festival selection. This work was created over three weeks as part of the Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest and premiered March 7, 2009 at a special screening at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, CA. Thanks to Adobe volunteers Tami Williams, Renee Coca, Charles Liss and Bruce Bowman, Cinequest volunteers and Adobe Youth Voices mentors Alex Yamamoto, Peter Pheap and Keith Morikawa.

Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest Film Festival selection. This work was created over three weeks as part of the Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest and premiered March 7 at a special screening at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, CA. Thanks to Adobe volunteers Tami Williams, Renee Coca, Charles Liss and Bruce Bowman, Cinequest volunteers and Adobe Youth Voices mentors Alex Yamamoto, Peter Pheap and Keith Morikawa.

The new tools to create complex selections in Photoshop CS5 allow both professional long time users to get a great result faster and new users to to get a professional result without tearing their hair out.

Make rectangular and elliptical selections with the marquee tools or freeform selections with the Lasso tool. Constrain, add or subtract from, and move selections. Use modifier keys to change the tools' behavior.

Navigate the stacking order in an Illustrator document by using the Selection tool. Select and isolate grouped objects and go into Outline Mode to view them more clearly. Learn how to select objects beneath the selected layer.

Use the Selection tool to grab objects or even objects within objects, such as text in a text frame or images within an image frame. Learn how to click through a grouped object to an object behind.

Choose the Selection tool to select an object or group of objects or the Direct Selection tool to select individual paths or anchor points. Choose the Group Selection tool to select nested groups. Use modifier keys to add or subtract from selections.

The vast majority of video professionals use Adobe Photoshop software to help them create and enhance visual effects and motion graphics, or to prepare still images and text for inclusion in video projects. With new Photoshop CS5 Extended, you can leverage cross‐platform 64‐bit support, the unrivaled Photoshop image‐editing toolset, and Adobe 3D Forge—the powerful Photoshop 3D engine that enables you to create and enhance 3D and motion‐based content. Plus, you can enjoy tighter integration with Adobe tools you use every day, including Adobe After Effects CS5, and Adobe Premiere Pro CS5. Realistically blend colors on canvas with the new Mixer Brush, and paint on 2D and 3D artwork more naturally using lifelike Bristle Tips. Remove an image element, and let Content‐Aware Fill intelligently replace the missing pixels.Use new Exposure Merge technology to create photorealistic or wildly surreal 32-bit HDR images with unprecedented speed, control, and accuracy. Take advantage of new Adobe Repoussé technology to easily create 3D artwork from any text layer, selection, or layer mask. And so much more.

Take the time and frustration out of making precise image selections. New Truer Edge selection technology in Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended offers better edge detection and masking results in less time—even when you select the trickiest image elements, like hair. Eliminate background color around the edges of your selection with new color decontamination capabilities.

Watch how you can make short work of everyday layout tasks using these intuitive productivity tools.

With Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium software, designers will be able to express ideas faster and more naturally, and will discover new possibilities to deliver ideas in digital media without writing code. Work faster and more efficiently using more precise image-selection tools in Photoshop CS5 Extended, variable-width strokes in Illustrator CS5 and intuitive object object-selection features in Adobe InDesign CS5. Turn Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator artwork into high-quality interactive content without writing code with new Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5.

Adobe Photoshop software is the tool of choice for designers and web professionals. Now with Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended, you can continue to push the boundaries of traditional digital imaging. Realistically blend colors on canvas with the new Mixer Brush. Create superior composites for print or web layouts with new technology that makes it easy to select even the trickiest image elements, like hair. Remove an image element, and let Content‐Aware Fill intelligently replace the missing pixels. Easily create 3D logos and artwork from any text layer, selection, or layer mask using new Adobe Repoussé technology. Use new Exposure Merge technology to create photo realistic or wildly surreal 32-bit HDR images with unprecedented speed, control, and accuracy. And import animated GIFs. Plus so much more.

Join Worldwide Design Evangelist Terry White as he runs through his 5 favorite Photoshop CS5 features. Included are new enhanced selection abilities and noise reduction tools.

One of the most amazing tools in Photoshop CS5, "Content Aware Fill" replaces a selection with the background texture of a Photograph. Join Colin Smith as he shows you this magical tool that changes everything.

View the top 5 Photoshop CS5 photo editing software features. Russell Brown, Photoshop senior creative director, presents his favorites from over 100 new features, including Content-Aware Fill, Puppet Warp, HDR Pro, realistic paint brushes, and new selections tools for the trickiest elements like hair.

Make fast work of common design and production tasks like image re-touching with magical content aware fill in Photoshop Extended, creating complex shapes with Shape Builder tool in Illustrator, and intuitive object-selection features in InDesign and more.

Terry White shares a few of his favorite new features in CS5 Design Premium including making precision selections, quickly with Photoshop, create expressive graphics easily with variable-width strokes in Illustrator and delivering visually engaging interactive documents that include video, audio and animation with InDesign.

Learn about the automatic selection tools in Photoshop Elements, which select areas of an image based on color and tone. Use with either Photoshop Elements version 7 or 8.

Learn how to use the manual selection tools. Check out the Elliptical Marquee, Rectangular Marquee, Lasso, and Quick Selection tools. Use with either Photoshop Elements version 7 or 8.

Join the retro Adobe movement! With this episode, Dennis will show you how to quickly and easily create a colored eye with Adobe Photoshop. You'll be creating alternate Photoshop icons in no time.

Learn how to use the manual selection tools. Check out the Elliptical Marquee, Rectangular Marquee, Lasso, and Quick Selection tools.

Learn about the automatic selection tools in Photoshop Elements, which select areas of an image based on color and tone.

Reshape path outlines by dragging anchor points with the Selection tool. Align objects using Smart Guides. Use the Reflect tool to flip a path.

Use control handles to define the curvature of a segment. Use the Direct Selection tool and the Convert Anchor Point tool to create refined curves.

Use the selection and painting tools in Photoshop to efficiently rotoscope. Exchange files between Photoshop and After Effects.

Learn how to wrap text around a graphic. Use the Selection tool to choose a graphic. Access the Text Wrap panel. Create an offset boundary.

Use the selection and painting tools in Photoshop to efficiently rotoscope. Exchange files between Photoshop and After Effects.

Learn how to make a nondestructive selection in Photoshop CS3 from the layer transparency created by the Background Eraser Tool. It sounds complex, but it's easy and the results look great!

Start by using the Quick Select Tool and Marquee Tool for making a selection in Photoshop CS3. Then, easily modify the selection with the new Refine Edge feature.

Avoid fringe artifacts in your selection and add a background with the Extract Tool, tips for making a better black and white print, create an adjustable metallic effect using smart objects, tips for using the History Brush.