Hey there in this tutorial, we're going to look at the lasso tool. It's super quick for doing little selections like this with things that have straight edges or this little icon here. I just need to quickly grab a little chunk of it. You can see the selection is not perfect but it's the quick and dirty selection tool that you really need for your toolkit. I use it often enough that I feel like I should share it with you guys as well. Let's jump in there and learn how to use it. Let's get started by going to file. Let's go to open where an 05 selections still were on last sue and click Open. I wanted to show you a graphic like we end up in Photoshop a lot with images but I use it for a lot of web design, ui app design infographics, that type of thing as well. So I'm using this graphic here because it kind of best demonstrates using these last few tools. So the lasso tool is this third one down here in my toolbar. If you click hold it down and we're going to use these top to the last on...

e here. The magnetic lasso tool. I would jump straight to the quick selection tool rather than this one. Some people like it. But the quick selection, we've learned lots and it's better in my opinion. So the lasso tool is it's like a lasso. It's making a selection, right? So we're gonna go click hold and drag, let's say we wanna grab this icon for whatever reason you want to copy it to another document or just move it around in this document because at the moment all of these things are fused to the background so I'm gonna click hold and drag my mouse and I'm being pretty rough, really rough and just get all the way back to roughly the beginning and then let go of your mouse and it's made a selection. I can go to edit copy, edit paste and now my move tool you'll see he's been pasted on his own land and it's just handy for like moving things around. It's not absolutely perfect mask because you can see it's really rough but there are lots of times where I just need to quickly move something around. I'm not going to spend the time using the quick selection tool and select the mask. And I just wanna just wanna do a hatchet job. It would be wrong for me to move through the selections part of this course without showing you how to do the hatchet jobs. Let's look at the other tool that I use reasonably often the polygonal lasso tool or polygonal or whatever it's called, click, click and hold down the lasso tool, grab the second option. Now we'll use this in a little bit more preciseness. Let's zoom in. I'm making it worse today. Okay let's say I want this part to go to a different document. Okay now what happens with this is you click once and then let go of your mouse and it's kind of attached. So I'm not not holding anything down now, I'm not dragging or anything and you just click again, click again and click again. And then when you get back to the beginning, can you see the icon changes from the kind of normal little gun thing to the one that has a little zero. Their little oh just say I'm going to close you up. Okay so that's what we're gonna do. It's gonna select de select. So I'm going to start here, click once, click once again click once again click once again you can see it's just a handy way of instead of trying to use the quick selection tool when you know it's just some rough shapes. That's a missed a little bit of the top. But you get the idea right now I can go copy. Um at the moment I'm on the wrong layers for a copy it's doing some weird stuff so make sure you're on your background layer. Hit copy, edit copy, edit paste. Now you move to and I've got this thing now that's been nicely cut out. Okay that I could copy and paste to a new document. And this is less of a hatchet job, it's a perfectly sharp edge. So why wouldn't I use the lasso tool to make it a perfectly sharp selection if this felt like a really kind of quick tutorial. I guess I only use it for quick things. If it's not going to be a quick job using these two tools, you're probably going to move to something like the quick selection tool and be adding and removing and then tidying up with the selected mask. But if it's speed, you need the lasso tool could be perfect for you. Let's talk that way in the back of your toolkit and move onto the next video.

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How to Select Things with Straight Edges in Adobe Photoshop CC

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40. How to Select Things with Straight Edges in Adobe Photoshop CC

Lessons

Class Introduction to Adobe Photoshop CC

Before you Start this Adobe Photoshop CC Tutorial

How to Use Layers in Adobe Photoshop CC

Basic Navigation & How to Combine Images in Photoshop

Layers - Quiz

How to Fix an Image Using Levels in Photoshop CC

How to Enhance Colors in Photoshop Using Vibrance

How to Change the Color of Something in Photoshop Using Hue

How to Change Just One Color in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Make an Image Black & White in Photoshop CC

How to Add a Gradient to an Image & Text in Photoshop

Color & Adjustment Layers - Quiz

Creating a Specific Sized Document Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Draw Star Square Circle Shape in Photoshop CC

Stealing Colors & Adobe Color Themes

Shapes - Quiz

How to Create Text in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Warp Text in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Get Text to Follow a Line or Circle in Photoshop

Text - Quiz

How to Add a Line Around the Outside of Type in Photoshop

How to a Bevel or Emboss to Text in Photoshop CC

How to Add a Drop Shadow to Text in Photoshop CC

Presenting your Photoshop Work for your Portfolio

Project 1 - Creating your own Postcard

How to Crop an Image in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Crop an Image for a Frame in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Straighten the Horizon Line Using Photoshop CC

How to Copy from One Image to Another in Photoshop CC

How to Crop Images Inside of Text

How to Remove the Background in Adobe Photoshop CC

Class Project - Quick Select Tool

How to put Text Behind a Person in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Create a Layer Mask in Adobe Photoshop CC

Class Project - Cut a Person out & put them into Another Image in Photoshop

How to Blend Fade one Image into Another in Photoshop CC

How to Weave Text in and out of a Photoshop Image

How to Select Hair in Adobe Photoshop CC

Class Project - Selecting Hair

How to Select Things with Straight Edges in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to get Text to Interact with Ink & Plants in Photoshop CC

Class Project - Text & Image Interaction

Selection & Masking - Quiz

How to Add Filters & Effects in Adobe Photoshop

How to Turn an Image into a Painting in Adobe Photoshop

Class Project – Oil Painting

How to Create the Dotted Halftone Poster Effect in Photoshop

Class exercise - Halftone

How to fake Realistic Motion Blur in Adobe Photoshop CC

The Lens Flare Right of Passage in Adobe Photoshop

Filters - Quiz

What is a Smart Object in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Bend a Logo onto an Image Realistically in Photoshop

How to make a Sky Peeling like Fabric Revealing Background in Photoshop

Class Project - Peeling Sky

How to Shrink Body Parts in Adobe Photoshop CC Using Liquify

How to Create Dripping Paint Text Effect in Photoshop CC

Class Project - Drippy Paint Text

How to Remove People & Text from a Picture in Photoshop

Use Google Images to find your Image Before Retouching

How to Remove Red Eye from Photographs in Photoshop

How to Retouch Skin in Adobe Photoshop CC

Class Project - Retouching

Enhancing Eyes in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Fix Teeth in Adobe Photoshop CC

Retouching

How to Instantly Remove the White Background of a Logo in Photoshop

Using Blending Modes as Color Accents in Photoshop

How to put Images Inside a Bottle Using Photoshop

Class Project - Boat in a Bottle

How to Create the Spotify Duotone Effect in Adobe Photoshop

Class Project - Duotones

How to Create the 3D Glasses Anaglyph Effect in Adobe Photoshop

Class Project - Anaglyph Effect