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Using the three Lasso tools

Using the three Lasso tools - Photoshop Tutorial

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Using the three Lasso tools

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[Instructor] All right, this is a pretty garbagey mask which is why I'm going to clean it up with the help of a couple of Lasso tool variations. So as you may recall, all the Lasso tool does, is draw a selection outline in the shape of your scribblings, so there's nothing remarkable about it. And so I'll just go ahead and click in order to de-select the image. But if you click and hold on the Lasso tool you'll see that there are two additional variations. We'll start with the Magnetic Lasso tool which is another automated tool inside Photoshop. And you use it just by clicking in order to begin a selection, and then you move your cursor around the thing that you want to select. And I want to make this clear, I am not dragging. I'm just moving the cursor around. And as I do Photoshop goes ahead and automatically selects points, if you don't like the last point, you can press the Backspace key or the Delete key on the Mac in…

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