Absolute Beginner's Guide to Digital Photography

The Polygonal Lasso Tool

The Lasso tool is a powerful selection tool in the

Photoshop arsenal. The Polygonal Lasso provides

even more power by creating straight lines. See for

yourself:

1. Open a sample image you can use as you
   walk through this chapter and save with a
   new name.


2. Click and hold the mouse button on the
   Lasso tool until the fly-out menu appears.
   Select the Polygonal Lasso tool.


3. Click along an edge of an area you’d like to
   select and then move the mouse and click
   again. The Polygonal Lasso will create a mar-
   quee line between the two points (see Figure 11.2).

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Adobe’s entry-level

product—Photoshop

Elements—lacks some of the tools

described in this chapter. There are

numerous workarounds, however.

FIGURE 11.2
The Polygonal
Lasso tool at
work.

4. If you make a mistake, press Delete. The last line will be removed. Press
   Delete again and the line before that will be removed.


5. Continue clicking until you return to the starting point and then click a final
   time. You will enclose the selection.