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Alright, in several of these movies I am sure you have seen me use the lasso tool to make selections. Let us look into that tool in just a little more detail right now, so that you can really know what it can do. The lasso tool also comes with a polygonal lasso tool, which is nothing more than drawing straight lines, and then the magnetic lasso tool which adheres to edges. Now the magnetic lasso tool really works best when you have high contrast between areas that you want to segregate. So let us take a look. We have not used this one yet, so let me show it to you. You will click on it where you want to start and it will automatically adhere; I am not pushing anything, I am moving the mouse to the image. Now let me show you, right here, see that, where it's not latching on to the edges of the hair. Just left-click and anchor it and then bring it on down, anchor it there, click on it. It gives you an anchor spot. If it won't adhere to the edge of the object you are trying to establish, just click on it, and it will anchor and then you can move on. See at the tip of the hat there, you've got to anchor it at the tip, come down, because we don't have as much contrast right here, so it does not know what to grab on to, and this takes a while. I mean you need to just follow it along and then where it begins to mesh, blend into the background, we've got to start clicking a lot because you got to give it an anchor point more often. Do not rely on its ability to find its own path because sometimes it just doesn't work. Now back here, you are going to have to start clicking on anchor points because it does not have much to grab on to, from a contrast standpoint. Now where it starts to get contrasty again then you can rely on what it is going to do, but when it gets around the hair, it really kind of starts freaking out, because it doesn't know what to grab on to, so you've got to help it and then click to anchor it because you are going to do a ninety degree turn in the opposite direction, Hold your selector down below the image so that it will be a straight line going across, make the two see the, a little circle appears, that means it is connected. Then let it cogitate and there is your selection. Pretty cool. Then what you can do is go to select inverse, which changes the selection to the background and then you can delete the background and look at that. Then you can put another background in there, you can put her on the beach, you can put her wherever you want to put her. It is not a half bad photograph all by itself. That is the lasso tool.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop Image Restoration |
| Author: | Phil Hawkins |
| SKU: | 33473 |
| ISBN: | 1932072705 |
| Release Date: | 2004-01-27 |
| Duration: | 4.5 hrs / 77 lessons |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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