Absolute Beginner's Guide to Digital Photography

■ Lasso tools.Click and drag Lasso tools to outline items and draw shapes

freehand (see Figure 10.8). The regular Lasso enables you to select areas free-

hand. The Polygonal Lasso enables you to click on multiple points before

returning to the start. The Magnetic Lasso snaps to the edges of an area

being outlined.

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FIGURE 10.7
Magic Wand
tool.

FIGURE 10.8
Lasso tools.

These selection tools isolate areas of any size, down to a selection size of one pixel

(see Figure 10.9). Once an area is selected, you can alter its color, sharpen it, blur it,

duplicate it, relocate it, remove it, and more.

FIGURE 10.9
One of the most
difficult selec-
tions possible:
hair.