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Using the Magnetic Lasso tool

Using the Magnetic Lasso tool - Photoshop Tutorial

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Using the Magnetic Lasso tool

In order to continue to deepen our understanding of making selection, what we'll do here is we'll take a look at how we can use the Lasso tool in order to make a few selections with this photograph. The first tool that we'll start off with is the Polygonal Lasso tool. Now we've seen this before. And I wanted to revisit that tool here to show you a bit more of a real world scenario. Here I'm going to select the Polygonal Lasso tool, and then what I want to do is make a selection of this window. Because lets say that I want to darken that area. So here we simply click Reposition the Cursor, click again. In order to create a selection that has a straight line, and you keep going along those edges or staight lines until you go back to where you started. Next, once you've done that, you want to target the layer you want to work on, in this case the Background layer, and then here, choose an adjustment. There are many different adjustments that we can make. So let's try one. Here we'll…

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