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Quick selection and the Magnetic Lasso - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals
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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Photoshop versus the real world1m 21s
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Meet the selection tools10m 26s
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Marking the center of an image4m 9s
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Drawing a geometric selection outline4m 45s
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Blurring a selection outline with Feather6m 8s
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Copy and paste versus drag and drop5m 31s
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Creating a graduated selection4m 29s
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Aligning one image with another4m 45s
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Accessing the Move tool on the fly3m 34s
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Invert and Match Colors5m 4s
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Matching colors selectively3m 52s
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Feathering and filling a selection5m 14s
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Dressing up a composition with effects5m 34s
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The incredible image rotation trick2m 18s
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The Magic Wand tool4m 12s
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Tolerance and other options7m 7s
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Grow, Similar, and Inverse5m 39s
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Quick selection and the Magnetic Lasso7m 27s
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Evaluating a selection in Quick Mask8m 52s
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Saving and loading selections6m 14s
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Placing an image with a layer mask3m 22s
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Eliminating edge fringing7m 43s
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