How to invert a selection in Photoshop

In Photoshop, the manipulation of many regions is used a lot and it is quite easy to manipulate even for new friends to Photoshop. However, the process of reversing a selection not everyone knows how to perform, so in this article TipsMake.com will show you how to reverse the selection in photoshop. Please follow along.

How to invert a selection in Photoshop Picture 1

For example, here our selection is a girl:

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To invert the selection, ie to select the surrounding area, we can do 2 ways: choose Select -> Inverse

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Or press Ctrl + Shift + I, and so the selection has been inverted to the area around the girl.

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We can then use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + X to remove the selected area and leave only the girl image:

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It's simple right, thank you for watching the article! Good luck!