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The lasso tools

The lasso tools - Photoshop Tutorial

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The lasso tools

In this exercise, we'll review the fundamentals of the Lasso tools. I've saved my changes as Alternative eye color.psd. Those lines look too much like a target to me, and I'm not interested in harming this frog, so I am going to turn the lines layer off. I have the original frog layer selected. Let's say I want to select this forward foot down here, so I'll go ahead and Zoom in on it, and then I'll grab the Lasso tool. Now, notice that you can get to the Lasso tool by pressing the L key. The default lasso is just called the Lasso tool. It's a Free Form Selection tool, and all you do is just drag around inside the image in order to select a region. Now, it's pretty difficult to control your actions, because you're ultimately relying on your coordination and the precision of your pointing device, which in my case is the mouse. Notice that I've arrived at the perimeter of my Image Window, so I can't really get to the rest of the foot. Well, if that happens to you, then all you need to do…

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