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How to Select Things with Straight Edges in Adobe Photoshop CC

Lesson 40 from: Adobe Photoshop Fundamentals

Daniel Walter Scott

How to Select Things with Straight Edges in Adobe Photoshop CC

Lesson 40 from: Adobe Photoshop Fundamentals

Daniel Walter Scott

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

Lessons

Class Trailer

Getting Started

1

Class Introduction to Adobe Photoshop CC

02:36
2

Before you Start this Adobe Photoshop CC Tutorial

01:20

Layers

3

How to Use Layers in Adobe Photoshop CC

09:56
4

Basic Navigation & How to Combine Images in Photoshop

07:37
5

Layers - Quiz

Color & Adjustment Layers

6

How to Fix an Image Using Levels in Photoshop CC

04:03
7

How to Enhance Colors in Photoshop Using Vibrance

03:28
8

How to Change the Color of Something in Photoshop Using Hue

02:52
9

How to Change Just One Color in Adobe Photoshop CC

01:57
10

How to Make an Image Black & White in Photoshop CC

04:35
11

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

10:57
12

Color & Adjustment Layers - Quiz

Shapes

13

Creating a Specific Sized Document Adobe Photoshop CC

04:10
14

How to Draw Star Square Circle Shape in Photoshop CC

12:01
15

Stealing Colors & Adobe Color Themes

06:39
16

Shapes - Quiz

Text

17

How to Create Text in Adobe Photoshop CC

08:09
18

How to Warp Text in Adobe Photoshop CC

01:57
19

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

13:04
20

Text - Quiz

Layer Styles

21

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

08:17
22

How to a Bevel or Emboss to Text in Photoshop CC

02:19
23

How to Add a Drop Shadow to Text in Photoshop CC

03:02
24

Presenting your Photoshop Work for your Portfolio

06:35
25

Project 1 - Creating your own Postcard

04:29

Cropping

26

How to Crop an Image in Adobe Photoshop CC

03:40
27

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

06:11
28

How to Straighten the Horizon Line Using Photoshop CC

01:55

Selections & Masking

29

How to Copy from One Image to Another in Photoshop CC

06:20
30

How to Crop Images Inside of Text

09:35
31

How to Remove the Background in Adobe Photoshop CC

10:11
32

Class Project - Quick Select Tool

00:37
33

How to put Text Behind a Person in Adobe Photoshop CC

07:01
34

How to Create a Layer Mask in Adobe Photoshop CC

04:47
35

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

08:57
36

How to Blend Fade one Image into Another in Photoshop CC

04:36
37

How to Weave Text in and out of a Photoshop Image

03:18
38

How to Select Hair in Adobe Photoshop CC

16:24
39

Class Project - Selecting Hair

01:21
40

How to Select Things with Straight Edges in Adobe Photoshop CC

03:41
41

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

13:15
42

Class Project - Text & Image Interaction

01:41
43

Selection & Masking - Quiz

Filters

44

How to Add Filters & Effects in Adobe Photoshop

04:14
45

How to Turn an Image into a Painting in Adobe Photoshop

03:12
46

Class Project – Oil Painting

00:31
47

How to Create the Dotted Halftone Poster Effect in Photoshop

06:42
48

Class exercise - Halftone

00:23
49

How to fake Realistic Motion Blur in Adobe Photoshop CC

04:28
50

The Lens Flare Right of Passage in Adobe Photoshop

03:31
51

Filters - Quiz

Smart Objects

52

What is a Smart Object in Adobe Photoshop CC

09:03

Transform & Distort

53

How to Bend a Logo onto an Image Realistically in Photoshop

07:49
54

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

03:13
55

Class Project - Peeling Sky

00:49
56

How to Shrink Body Parts in Adobe Photoshop CC Using Liquify

05:44
57

How to Create Dripping Paint Text Effect in Photoshop CC

09:17
58

Class Project - Drippy Paint Text

00:52

Retouching

59

How to Remove People & Text from a Picture in Photoshop

06:56
60

Use Google Images to find your Image Before Retouching

02:38
61

How to Remove Red Eye from Photographs in Photoshop

00:53
62

How to Retouch Skin in Adobe Photoshop CC

05:22
63

Class Project - Retouching

00:47
64

Enhancing Eyes in Adobe Photoshop CC

06:46
65

How to Fix Teeth in Adobe Photoshop CC

04:33
66

Retouching

Blending Modes

67

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

04:15
68

Using Blending Modes as Color Accents in Photoshop

07:10
69

How to put Images Inside a Bottle Using Photoshop

15:14
70

Class Project - Boat in a Bottle

02:15

Visual Styles

71

How to Create the Spotify Duotone Effect in Adobe Photoshop

05:43
72

Class Project - Duotones

00:20
73

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

06:14
74

Class Project - Anaglyph Effect

00:36
75

How to Create a Vintage Instagram Matte Photo in Photoshop

08:40
76

Class Project - Vintage Matte Photo

00:49
77

How to Create the Paper Cut Effect in Adobe Photoshop CC

12:07
78

Class Project - Paper Cut Effect

00:31

Artboards

79

How to Use an Artboard in Adobe Photoshop CC

20:14

Color Modes & Resolution

80

What is the Difference Between RGB and CMYK in Adobe Photoshop CC

07:12
81

How do you Change the Resolution to 300dpi in Photoshop CC

10:38
82

Color Modes & Resulotion - Quiz

Brushes

83

Basic Introduction to Using a Wacom Tablet with Photoshop

12:22
84

How to Create Splatter Paint Effects in Adobe Photoshop CC

08:11
85

77. Class Project - Ink Splats

00:54
86

How to Create Dripping Paint Ink Effect in Photoshop

06:46
87

Class Project - Dripping Paint Brush

00:55
88

How to Create Smoke with an Image Inside it using Photoshop CC

05:50
89

Class Project - Smoke Effect

01:03

Shadows

90

How to Make a Long Vector Hard Shadow in Photoshop

05:26
91

How to Cast a Realistic Shadow on the Ground in Photoshop

07:16
92

Bending or Curved Shadow Under an Image in Photoshop

03:33

Export

93

How to Export Images from Photoshop for Print Web & Social Media

10:18

What Next

94

What Next after your Photoshop Essentials Class

01:15

Final Quiz

95

Final 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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