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Quick selection and the Magnetic Lasso

Quick selection and the Magnetic Lasso - Photoshop Tutorial

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Quick selection and the Magnetic Lasso

I'm still hard at work inside of ManlySawimage.jpg which is found inside of the 08_selection folder. And in this exercise, we are going to take a swing at selecting the saw blade using the Quick Selection tool, but even given that we are using a tool with a moniker quick, this isn't likely to be a fast process, because there's not much contrast between the blade and the background. So it's going to be pretty hard for Photoshop to see. At any time you're thinking of wandering into either strange or dangerous territory, you're not sure how well things are going to work, it's always a good idea to get in the habit of visiting the History panel. I'll show you what I mean. You can click on the History icon here, or if you want to, you can go to the Window menu, choose the History command or if you loaded dekeKeys, press Alt+F9, Option+F9 on the Mac. And you'll see your entire selection history right there. I am going to go ahead and click on this little Camera icon or even better press the…

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