Shortcuts play a crucial role in streamlining your workflow and enhancing your productivity in Photoshop for iPad. When it comes to selections, employing shortcuts can significantly boost your efficiency and precision. This tutorial will delve into essential selection shortcuts that will help you navigate your editing tasks with ease.

Essential Selection Shortcuts

1. Quick Selection Tool: Tap and hold on the Lasso tool to access the Quick Selection Tool. This tool allows you to quickly outline objects based on their color and contrast.
2. Refine Edge Tool: After using the Quick Selection Tool, you can refine the edges of your selection using the Refine Edge Tool. This tool provides advanced options to fine-tune the selection’s shape and sharpness.
3. Magic Wand Tool: Tap and hold on the Quick Selection Tool to access the Magic Wand Tool. This tool selects contiguous areas of similar color, making it ideal for selecting flat backgrounds or uniform objects.
4. Marquee Tools: The Marquee tools allow you to create precise rectangular, elliptical, or single-row/column selections. To access these tools, swipe left or right on the Lasso tool icon.
5. Lasso Tools: The Lasso tools enable you to create freehand selections, polygonal selections, or magnetic selections that cling to edges. To access these tools, swipe left or right on the Marquee tools icon.
6. Subtractive Selections: To subtract from an existing selection, hold down the Option key (Alt key on Windows) while dragging the Lasso or Marquee tool.
7. Intersecting Selections: To create an intersection of two selections, hold down the Shift key while dragging the Lasso or Marquee tool.
8. Inverse Selection: To invert an existing selection, tap on the ‘Select’ menu and choose ‘Inverse.’ This will select the areas that were previously not selected.
9. Expand Selection: To expand an existing selection, tap on the ‘Select’ menu and choose ‘Expand’ then enter the desired number of pixels. This will add a specified border to the selection.
10. Contract Selection: To contract an existing selection, tap on the ‘Select’ menu and choose ‘Contract’ then enter the desired number of pixels. This will remove a specified border from the selection.

Mastering Selection Shortcuts for Efficiency

By incorporating these shortcuts into your workflow, you can significantly enhance your efficiency and precision when making selections in Photoshop for iPad. Practice these shortcuts regularly to develop muscle memory and streamline your editing process.