How to Select Things with Straight Edges in Adobe Photoshop CC
Daniel Walter Scott
Lesson Info
40. How to Select Things with Straight Edges in Adobe Photoshop CC
Lessons
Class Introduction to Adobe Photoshop CC
02:36 2Before you Start this Adobe Photoshop CC Tutorial
01:20 3How to Use Layers in Adobe Photoshop CC
09:56 4Basic Navigation & How to Combine Images in Photoshop
07:37 5Layers - Quiz
How to Fix an Image Using Levels in Photoshop CC
04:03 7How to Enhance Colors in Photoshop Using Vibrance
03:28 8How to Change the Color of Something in Photoshop Using Hue
02:52 9How to Change Just One Color in Adobe Photoshop CC
01:57 10How to Make an Image Black & White in Photoshop CC
04:35 11How to Add a Gradient to an Image & Text in Photoshop
10:57 12Color & Adjustment Layers - Quiz
13Creating a Specific Sized Document Adobe Photoshop CC
04:10 14How to Draw Star Square Circle Shape in Photoshop CC
12:01 15Stealing Colors & Adobe Color Themes
06:39 16Shapes - Quiz
17How to Create Text in Adobe Photoshop CC
08:09 18How to Warp Text in Adobe Photoshop CC
01:57 19How to Get Text to Follow a Line or Circle in Photoshop
13:04 20Text - Quiz
21How to Add a Line Around the Outside of Type in Photoshop
08:17 22How to a Bevel or Emboss to Text in Photoshop CC
02:19 23How to Add a Drop Shadow to Text in Photoshop CC
03:02 24Presenting your Photoshop Work for your Portfolio
06:35 25Project 1 - Creating your own Postcard
04:29 26How to Crop an Image in Adobe Photoshop CC
03:40 27How to Crop an Image for a Frame in Adobe Photoshop CC
06:11 28How to Straighten the Horizon Line Using Photoshop CC
01:55 29How to Copy from One Image to Another in Photoshop CC
06:20 30How to Crop Images Inside of Text
09:35 31How to Remove the Background in Adobe Photoshop CC
10:11 32Class Project - Quick Select Tool
00:37 33How to put Text Behind a Person in Adobe Photoshop CC
07:01 34How to Create a Layer Mask in Adobe Photoshop CC
04:47 35Class Project - Cut a Person out & put them into Another Image in Photoshop
08:57 36How to Blend Fade one Image into Another in Photoshop CC
04:36 37How to Weave Text in and out of a Photoshop Image
03:18 38How to Select Hair in Adobe Photoshop CC
16:24 39Class Project - Selecting Hair
01:21 40How to Select Things with Straight Edges in Adobe Photoshop CC
03:41 41How to get Text to Interact with Ink & Plants in Photoshop CC
13:15 42Class Project - Text & Image Interaction
01:41 43Selection & Masking - Quiz
44How to Add Filters & Effects in Adobe Photoshop
04:14 45How to Turn an Image into a Painting in Adobe Photoshop
03:12 46Class Project – Oil Painting
00:31 47How to Create the Dotted Halftone Poster Effect in Photoshop
06:42 48Class exercise - Halftone
00:23 49How to fake Realistic Motion Blur in Adobe Photoshop CC
04:28 50The Lens Flare Right of Passage in Adobe Photoshop
03:31 51Filters - Quiz
52What is a Smart Object in Adobe Photoshop CC
09:03 53How to Bend a Logo onto an Image Realistically in Photoshop
07:49 54How to make a Sky Peeling like Fabric Revealing Background in Photoshop
03:13 55Class Project - Peeling Sky
00:49 56How to Shrink Body Parts in Adobe Photoshop CC Using Liquify
05:44 57How to Create Dripping Paint Text Effect in Photoshop CC
09:17 58Class Project - Drippy Paint Text
00:52 59How to Remove People & Text from a Picture in Photoshop
06:56 60Use Google Images to find your Image Before Retouching
02:38 61How to Remove Red Eye from Photographs in Photoshop
00:53 62How to Retouch Skin in Adobe Photoshop CC
05:22 63Class Project - Retouching
00:47 64Enhancing Eyes in Adobe Photoshop CC
06:46 65How to Fix Teeth in Adobe Photoshop CC
04:33 66Retouching
67How to Instantly Remove the White Background of a Logo in Photoshop
04:15 68Using Blending Modes as Color Accents in Photoshop
07:10 69How to put Images Inside a Bottle Using Photoshop
15:14 70Class Project - Boat in a Bottle
02:15 71How to Create the Spotify Duotone Effect in Adobe Photoshop
05:43 72Class Project - Duotones
00:20 73How to Create the 3D Glasses Anaglyph Effect in Adobe Photoshop
06:14 74Class Project - Anaglyph Effect
00:36 75How to Create a Vintage Instagram Matte Photo in Photoshop
08:40 76Class Project - Vintage Matte Photo
00:49 77How to Create the Paper Cut Effect in Adobe Photoshop CC
12:07 78Class Project - Paper Cut Effect
00:31 79How to Use an Artboard in Adobe Photoshop CC
20:14 80What is the Difference Between RGB and CMYK in Adobe Photoshop CC
07:12 81How do you Change the Resolution to 300dpi in Photoshop CC
10:38 82Color Modes & Resulotion - Quiz
83Basic Introduction to Using a Wacom Tablet with Photoshop
12:22 84How to Create Splatter Paint Effects in Adobe Photoshop CC
08:11 8577. Class Project - Ink Splats
00:54 86How to Create Dripping Paint Ink Effect in Photoshop
06:46 87Class Project - Dripping Paint Brush
00:55 88How to Create Smoke with an Image Inside it using Photoshop CC
05:50 89Class Project - Smoke Effect
01:03 90How to Make a Long Vector Hard Shadow in Photoshop
05:26 91How to Cast a Realistic Shadow on the Ground in Photoshop
07:16 92Bending or Curved Shadow Under an Image in Photoshop
03:33 93How to Export Images from Photoshop for Print Web & Social Media
10:18 94What Next after your Photoshop Essentials Class
01:15 95Final Quiz
Lesson Info
How to Select Things with Straight Edges in Adobe Photoshop CC
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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