Rectangular Marquee Tool ~ Photography and Tutorials for Beginners

Rectangular Marquee Tool is also very useful tool to play with in Photoshop. It can do many interesting effects to your designing. I mostly use it while designing an album to create border in albums etc. Today I will show you how it can give different effects to your picture.

First open Photoshop, Obviously.
Open any image of your choice,
I have selected the following picture.

Now select Rectangular Marquee Tool.

Now, make a rectangular on the Image.

Now press Ctrl+Shift+I to inverse the selection.
The apply auto-level or open level dialogue box to give some effect to the picture.
After applying the Levels, my picture came out as can be seen below-

As you can see the change of color between the selected area is changed.
Now, again inverse the selection (Ctrol+shift+I).
Now press Ctrl+U top open Hue/Saturation dialogue box.
Set the options as under to make it Black&White:-

It is done.
Now Let's proceed further.
Create a new layer
Select the new layer and then change the foreground color.

You must be thinking what I have made. It is just the foreground color I have set.
Now Select the New Layer, Click on Edit>>>Stroke.
Choose the Width according to your choice.
Choose Color and then Press Ok.

As you can see the green border has been appeared around the red rectangular.
Now Choose Magic wand Tool.
Click in the Red Area. Make sure the New layer is selected.
After applying the Wand Tool selection. Simply press Delete button.
Press Ctrl+D to deselect the Selection and Voila, You'll have the desired picture.
Apply some other effects to the pictures as per your liking and requirement.
My Image came out as under:-