How to Make Rectangular Selection in Fixed Size or Ratio
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One of the Photoshop selection tools Rectangular Marque. This is powerful tool to make rectangular selection in easy and quickly. Sometime we need to make selection in fixed size, i.e we want to make 300 x 250 pixel, or a rectangular in 1 : 3 ratio. Rectangular marquee can be use to make this fixed size or ratio quickly. Here is a simple tutorial to make it in Photoshop.
There is advanced option of the Rectangular Marquee, located in the Photoshop’s option bar right after we select / activate Rectangular Marquee.
photoshop tutorial - select the style for marquee
Adjusting the Rectangular Marquee Option Bar
Select the style in the option bar, there are three option that we can choose from. They are: Normal, Fixed Ratio, and Fixed Size. By default, the style is Normal.
For example we need to make rectangular selection in 2:3 aspect ratio, we simply put the number in the Width and Height of the Fixed Ratio option. By the time we make selection, no matter how we drag the Rectangular Marquee pointer, the selection will always in this ratio.
drag to make fixed ratio selection
And how to make the selection in fixed size in Photoshop? For example, in this tutorial I want to make a rectangular selection in 468×60 pixels (a common size for small banner that use by website promotion).
We can make it by select the Style as Fixed Size. Fill the pixel size in width and height. Don’t forget the size measurement. Beside pixel, there are: inches, centimeter, millimeter, points, picas, and percent.
drag to make fixed size selection
In case you forgot the Photoshop’s abbreviation for pixel that is px, or the others, you can right click on the boxes to select the measurement.
photoshop measurement abbreviation
Tags: photoshop tutorials, rectangular marquee, Selection, Tutorials
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[...] example, I use 2:3 ratios for this. If you want to know how to do this, I suggest you to read the Make Fixed Ratio Selection tutorial first. make selection as ordinary photo size [...]
that’s inspired me in improving my skill on photoshop.
thanks