In Photoshop, working with selections is a commonly used and user-friendly skill, even for those new to the software. However, not everyone is familiar with the process of reversing a selection. In this article, Mytour guides you on how to reverse selections in Photoshop. Follow along!

For example, let's say the current selection is a girl:

To reverse the selection, meaning to choose the surrounding scene, you can do it in two ways, either by selecting Select -> Inverse

Alternatively, press the key combination Ctrl + Shift + I, and just like that, the selection has flipped to the surroundings of the girl.

At that point, you can use the shortcut Ctrl+X to remove the selected area, leaving only the image of the girl:

It's that simple, isn't it? Thank you for following along! Wishing you all success!