Apple Macintosh PhotoFlash - Manual (Page 61)

Deselecting an area
To deselect the current selection so that no part of the image remains
selected, choose Deselect from the Edit menu or press x-D. If you’re not
using the Magic Wand or the Polygon tool, you can also click outside of the
selected area or in the gray area around the image, if any, to deselect the
current selection.
After you’ve deselected an area, the moving dashed lines around it disappear.
Inverting a selection
When you invert the current selection, everything that was selected becomes
deselected, and everything that was not selected becomes selected.
To invert a selection, choose Invert Selection from the Edit menu. After you
invert a selection, the original selection remains surrounded by moving
dashed lines, but moving dashed lines also surround the entire image.
Inverting a selection can be useful if you want to emphasize one part of an
image by using the Blur tool or some of the other Action tools to make the
rest of the image appear to recede into the background. You can select the
part you want to emphasize, invert the selection so that the part you want to
emphasize becomes deselected and the background becomes selected, then
use the Blur tool or one of the other Action tools to change the selected
background.
51 Working With Selections
Selected area
The area originally
selected is now the
only area that’s not
selected.