

In general, smaller file size = smaller feathers (make all of the above smaller for a 72 dpi image).Small area selected = small feather (if you are selecting eyes as your area, your feather might be 10 px).Medium area selected = medium feather (if the selected area encompasses less than half the image, your feather might be 30 px).Large area selected = big feather (if the selected area encompasses a majority of the image, your feather might be 80 or 100 px).You will need to set the feather setting FIRST, before making the selection! This will blend the changes you apply to the selection into the pixels around them.įor instance, if you want to select a person’s face so you can brighten it, or there is a color cast on the face/neck that you want to fix, you will definitely want to feather your selection. When using any of the selection tools on a portrait, it is important to know that you must “feather” or “refine” the edge. You click the tool, then draw around the area you want selected. After you let up, you will see moving dotted lines, or “marching ants.” Lassoing an area is pretty straight forward. To use the lasso, simply press the ‘L’ key ( Photoshop shortcut) on your keyboard, move your mouse to an area on the image, then trace around the area you want to alter. Remember the basic rule of selection tools - you are selecting an area you want changed and (usually) the area INSIDE your selection will be the area changed. The Photoshop lasso tool is also my favorite selection too! The lasso tool is one of several selection tools used in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements and is great to use when you need to select of a particular area of your image.
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Are you lazy?Ĭan you imagine a tool for making 80-90 % correct selection and it just by dragging that same lazy outline around it ? So it is for everyone who are like me, who want to do work fast with less efforts. Here we have merged two layers with the help of polygon lasso tool. Now when we complete the tracing of sky in image, we have a selection and now we will delete the selection and put another image of sky below this layerĮxplained in previous Chapter Photoshop Layers. We are just tracing with the straight lines of house. Here we want to change the sky of this image so now we are making selection of sky by polygon lasso tool. But it is much flexible and gives freedom to work with as many lines in all directions. This tool is to select line shapes, basically it is like rectangular marquee tool. Press and hold on lasso tool to see these options.

When you get complete with your selection you can move or transform it by move tool Make selection just by moving it freehand on the portion of the image. By this you can select by freehand selection like you are running a virtual pencil. Shortcut key for Lasso Tool is “L”. (For all shortcuts go to Photoshop Shortcut tutorial) It is its flexibility in selection which make your selection easy. Another type of selection tool like other it will also help you to select desired portion of image. Now if it is just another selection tool then why we need to know about it?
