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Working with the Magnetic Lasso tool - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
Working with the Magnetic Lasso tool
All right. We didn't really get anything done in the previous exercise, so I've reverted to the saved version of Alternative eye color.psd. I'll once again turn off the lines layer so that we can focus on the frog. In this exercise, I am going to show you a great use for the Magnetic Lasso. One of the things that bothers a lot of folks as they start using this tool is they try to get too ambitious with it. You don't want to select an entire image really using any of these tools. You are best off combining the tools together and I'll show you how that works in the next chapter. But for now, I just want to make a case for using this tool on small portions of an image. For example, let's say that I want to take this rear eye right there, the eye that's barely visible in the background and we want to make a commensurate change to it so that it matches this forward eye. What we want to do is select this rear eye and add it to the layer Mask, make sure you have the Magnetic Lasso tool…
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The marquee tools6m 31s
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The single-pixel tools (plus tool tricks)6m 48s
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Turning a destructive edit into a layer5m 34s
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Making shapes of specific sizes7m 7s
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The lasso tools5m 49s
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Working with the Magnetic Lasso tool7m 19s
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The Quick Selection tool8m 13s
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Combining Quick Selection and Smudge4m 52s
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The Magic Wand and the Tolerance value6m 55s
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Contiguous and Anti-aliased selections6m 58s
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Making a good selection with the Magic Wand6m 34s
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Selecting and replacing a background6m 55s
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Resolving edges with layer effects7m 52s
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Adding lines of brilliant gold type7m 28s
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The seven selection soldiers52s
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