A couple of newbie selection questions

[Mr Lucky]

I am moving over from Photoshop and there are a couple things I can't find:

 

1 Selecting using the lasso tool, by holding alt and drawing a straight line to the next click and so on to make a polygonal selction.

 

2 Selecting an entire object. e.g. say I have a layer that just has one object in it. I want to just select the entire object.

 

In Photoshop I click CMD + A to select the whole layer, then click on first the left and then right arrows and the outline of the object becomes selected

 

(Sorry I am not explaining that very technically)

[R C-R]

For straight line selections, hold down the SHIFT key continuously while dragging & clicking with the lasso. It isn't like Photoshop but it works, sort of.

 

To select an entire layer, click on its thumbnail in the Layers panel with the CMD key held down. This works, regardless of the tool selected.

[Mr Lucky]

For straight line selections, hold down the SHIFT key continuously while dragging & clicking with the lasso. It isn't like Photoshop but it works, sort of.

 

To select an entire layer, click on its thumbnail in the Layers panel with the CMD key held down. This works, regardless of the tool selected.

 

 

Thanks, yes that does work. I was confused because the lasso tool is already completed as an area as opposed to being a line that finally joins up to itself at the end.