Polygonal lasso tool

Hi Friends !
May be you could help me :
I wonder how to move the areas I've traced with the Polygonal Lasso Tool (traced while holding the shift key to add them) separately ?
Because when I'm using the move tool the whole block is moving...
Another question : If I deselect and realize I want to move / rearrange those again how do I do that ?
Thank you !

I have to admit to not fully understanding your question, but making some assumptions here are my thoughts:
1) If you have a selection (as indicated in your post) consisting of several separate areas and want to move only some of those areas then you can follow the advice given by Noel or Bill.  If you simply want to move or change  the entire collection of selected areas then click on Select>Transform selection and manipulate the selection using the bounding box presented to either move or reshape the selection.
2) If you want to move or rearrange a selection after you deselected it, you must have previously saved that selection.  With your polygonal lasso tool active and your selections on screen right click. From the resulting drop down menu choose Save selection.  This will produce a new channel which you can name. After deselecting you can at any time in the future recreate the selection by opening the Channels panel, hold down the Ctrl key and click on the thumbnail in channel you created. Then return to the Layers panel to resume your editing.
Paulo

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