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Robin Nichols
Robin Nichols
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Robin Nichols

Born in the UK, Robin Nichols has always had a great love for recording the world with a camera. After finishing school, he studied fine art, before moving on to study at Nottingham Trent University, where he gained a degree in creative photography. He subsequently worked in the advertising industry for several years, before emigrating to Australia in 1985. Robin has always worked in photography: as a black and white printer, a cameraman, a stock photographer, and a freelance photographer. During the 1990s, Robin contributed to several photo-centric publications in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the UK.
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Select menu

As its name suggests, this menu contains everything to do with selections. Use its features to do the following:

  • Select>All – A very handy command—select an entire image or the content of a selection, prior to you pasting it somewhere (Ctrl/Cmd + A).
  • Select>Deselect - this effectively kills off the current selection (that is, turns it off—Ctrl/Cmd + D).
  • Select>Reselect - used to bring the previous selection back into the image (Shift + Ctrl/Cmd + D).
  • Select>Inverse - use this to flip your selection into a negative state. An excellent technique if your subject is hard to select but the background is not (Shift + Ctrl/Cmd + I).
  • Select>Feather - this is an integral part of the selection process—to feather the edge means the sharp selection line is made softer.
  • Select>Refine Edge - no selection is ever 100% perfect, so use this mini-utility to modify that selection edge.
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Robin Nichols

Born in the UK, Robin Nichols has always had a great love for recording the world with a camera. After finishing school, he studied fine art, before moving on to study at Nottingham Trent University, where he gained a degree in creative photography. He subsequently worked in the advertising industry for several years, before emigrating to Australia in 1985. Robin has always worked in photography: as a black and white printer, a cameraman, a stock photographer, and a freelance photographer. During the 1990s, Robin contributed to several photo-centric publications in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the UK.
Read more about Robin Nichols