From the course: Photoshop for Fashion: Warping Pattern Fills

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Lasso tool

- [Instructor] When you need to have a little more control of your selection so that you can select a garment so that you can fill with additional fabric, you might want to try using the Lasso Tool. And if you click and hold, you'll notice there are a few different lassos here, but I quite like using the plain old Lasso Tool. And I'll show you why. Let's zoom in here so I can make a selection. With the Lasso Tool, if you start using the plain old Lasso, you can click and drag. And when you let go, it closes its path, which is kind of a nice, easy way to make a selection. So I prefer working with this tool. The other thing about using this tool is if you click and drag with it, and then hold down the Alt key, it switches to the Polygon Lasso, which lets you kind of go click, click, click and take little nips of things. But still, if you release the Alt key, it goes back to the original Lasso Tool, and closes the path for you. So, it's a nice way to work. So, when I make selections…

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