From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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The lasso tools - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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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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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