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Adobe® Photoshop® CS2 Studio Techniques
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Adobe® Photoshop® CS2 Studio Techniques

by Ben Willmore
August 2005
Beginner content levelBeginner
592 pages
24h 40m
English
Adobe Press
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Magnetic Lasso Tool

Whereas the Lasso and Polygonal Lasso tools are relatively straightforward, the Magnetic Lasso tool has a bunch of neat tricks up its sleeve. This tool can be a huge timesaver in that it allows you to trace around the edge of an object without having to be overly precise. You don't have to break a sweat making all of those tiny, painstaking movements with your mouse. Instead, you can make big sloppy selections, and the Magnetic Lasso will do the fine-tuning for you (you don't even have to hold down the mouse button). What's more, if it doesn't do a great job in certain areas, you can hold down Option (Mac) or Alt (Windows) to temporarily access the freeform Lasso tool. However, before using the Magnetic Lasso tool, you'll ...

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