Lessons
Elliptical Marquee: Corners
04:17 2Transform Selection
06:13 3Straight lines with Lasso Tool
02:13 4Quick Selection Tool
03:25 5Inverse Selection
01:13 6Lasso plus Magic Wand Selections
06:20 7Quick Mask Mode
06:10 8Precise Selection on Handwritten Text
14:20Lesson Info
Straight lines with Lasso Tool
Let's talk briefly about the lasso tool with the lasso tool. Usually you can click and drag and make free form shape. You could just trace what other, whatever object you're trying to isolate but there's a trick to it. If you ever run into any straight lines in the thing, you're trying to select it's going to be awfully hard to draw the straight line by hand and keep it actually straight, so when you're in the middle of using the lasso to elect this, you can hold down a special key and your keyboard. It happens to be the option key, and if you keep it held down that's the altar, keane windows, then you could like all your mouse bun as long as you have the option he held down it means don't finish my selection yet it's kind of like a pause button that says, hey, don't finish! Usually you let go and finish and you can just click and click and click and make straight lines and if you want to go back to a free form shape, just click and don't let go just are drawn and then if you let go ag...
ain, you go back to making straight line segments for as long as you have the option he held them. Now, if I let go of the option key, it means no longer pause the finishing of this election. Make it so if I let go of mass bun that finishes the selection like it usually does so far, let go of option right now. It should usually finish my selection. It didn't. Right now, though, it changed it over to a different selection tool. Most the time, though it will not affect your wide stuck just now. But so if I wanted to select this object, I see a nice straight line here I can click the mouse buttonholed option, get a nice straight line, then keep my mouth's held down as I draw around this curve, then let go click again to get a straight line and so on. But holding down the option key is what's going to allow me to get those straight lines that nice. And so, therefore I could have selected the outer part of the circle using the, uh, technique we talked about previously to get the round part first, and then I could add on to it with our lasso tool.
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Steve61861
I love learning from Ben Willmore! He has such a friendly, casual style I just love watching him in action. But he never wastes my time, he attacks his topic forcefully, stays focused on his teaching, and I have learned so much watching his videos. Ben is terrific and I strongly recommend this and his other courses on CreativeLive.
Julie Coder
Excellent class! Ben has a very clear presentation style so it's easy to follow along. I appreciate seeing the diverse approaches to selections, and some creative uses as well. Thanks so much!
dinotaco
I am a beginner in PS. I had been struggling with it for about 6 months until I took Ben Willmore's Photoshop 101. I have had many "aha" moments, but still learning. I decided to get "Quick Selections" because I was looking for shortcuts and quicker ways to process my photography. I am only half way through the course and it has already paid for itself in time that it will save me. It has also opened my eyes to greater possibilities in editing. Ben Willmore is an excellent instructor. His style is laid back, but thorough.
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