Welcome back.
So in this video, we're to talk about one of my favorite tools in Photoshop.
The lasso tool.
So first we're gonna grab the lasso tool.
And I'll show you how this works.
So the idea behind this is it's kind of like a selection tool, right?
You can go like this and come up here.
Round came a beautiful face there.
And then bring it back down.
And then you're going to look for.
The little circle doesn't.
Come on, where are you?
Are you trying to connect us?
There you go.
So what I did there is I selected kind of a weird selection, so let's dislike this control.
And we'll do this again.
So what you're going to do is it's kind of a freeform selection tool.
OK, so I can select all of that, and if I had to leave, I go bye bye.
If I undo that with control Z, I stay there.
Now, the other way, we can utilize this tool, which is really cool.
And takes a little bit of practice and.
Not my steady hand here, but what you can do.
As I can go here and down and come back.
OK.
And I can hit.
OK, so I can remove part of the background with that and I can come up here and do the same thing,
which I'm kind of getting a little wild here.
But let me try this in this corner and then come over here and down.
And like I said, this is why, like in the previous video, he's the marquee tool for this part.
The rectangular mark talk because it's a square background.
So you don't really need the lasso tool for this specific part, but you would use it for this, like
when you're gonna go here and do kind of the touch up, which I'm just kind of rough.
So I cut my beard off.
And then if I come back here with my rough thing here.
So like I was saying, you can use the lasso tool to kind of cut around here and really cut out some
of the tighter edges here, like if I zoom in.
So what I do is I hit the the Z key here, so I'll just.
If you had Z.
Let me just.
Right.
Click on that.
You can see it.
So the letter Z.
And then you can zoom in with that.
And then just click on.
And so if we hit L, which is for the lasso tool, we can go in here and we can really go close and
you can see him and I cut over.
But that's alright for this example.
And we can come back here and come up and back around and right here.
And then they go in and hit delete.
And it's going to cut off my ear.
But again, when you zoom out, you're not going to be able to tell.
But that's really what the lasso tools for is.
It's more for touch up, getting real close on the edges and then working inside of here and then deleting
it.
And that's really what I've used it for when I Photoshop stuff, as I use it specifically for that.
And they're trying to kill it off, but they have other tools that really do a better job of the same
function.
And so it becomes less and less used when they start making better tools.
Are new adobe.
I'm just getting I think it's great what they're doing.
So keep up the good work.
But again, what you see here is if I grabbed the lasso tool, the letter L and I do the same thing
as we were doing before, we can make kind of a more of a defined edit when we're gonna, like, block
out this color right here.
Right.
So if I zoom in, let's zoom out just a little bit so you don't look at every go.
And if I grab the lasso tool here and we just draw kind of a tight.
Oval shape or rectangular shape here.
And then I do the brush.
OK.
And let's do the eyedropper, so hit the letter I and then drop that color.
And then the B for brush.
So that'll fill it in.
And then when I zoom out, you can't even tell that I added that because it's a more tighter edit.
It's a tighter touch up.
We can't really tell.
OK.
You can tell there.
But when I zoom out to here, unless you did the edit, you're not going to know because that's the
point.
That's that's the key to a to a really good photo editor.
Is that you can't tell that was Photoshopped.
That's what you want to get to.
Like, if you're just starting out, you're not going to be there right away, which is fine.
But again, if I if I zoom in here and I do the same thing here and I do it even tighter than before.
And I just kind of hover over the colors that I want to block out.
OK.
And then we do the same thing, we grabbed the brush and we do that and then we zoom out, you can see
it there, but when I go out far, that that's more terrible than the other one.
But the good thing is, is I can undo this if I undo.
Undo.
And then I use the eyedropper.
But not the brush, sorry.
Here I am for me.
And then do the eyedropper and then grab the brush with B and then zoom out and that should take care
of it.
And that does once you zoom out.
You can't tell.
OK.
This is Photoshopped.
OK, because again, when you get to the image, if it's on social media or whatever it's on, it's
only going to be probably 50 to 100 percent or 33 percent.
So you're not going to be able to tell what I've done with it.
Now, what I want you to do is we're going to undo all of our changes here.
So one way we can do it is it control Z until it goes back, OK?
The other way to do it is if I go to a window and I go to history, I can scroll all the way up to the
top and click on D Select.
And what that's gonna do is instead of having to do a control on control Z 15 times or 30 times or however
many times we edited, you just go right to the top of the history D Select.
And there you go.
So we're going to save this.
And now what we're going to do is we're in to talk about the Polygon all Lessel tool.
OK.
So this is a little different.
So this is more of a.
What the name of the tool is Polygon all tool.
So this is, again, not really for this particular project here of Photoshop in my face, my shirt,
my hair, the background, et cetera.
This is more for if you have a.
Angular object that you need to create points with and go around like that, because this would not
be easy to do with my face, really.
I mean, you could try it.
Just kind of.
Yeah, I'm I'm too.
My head is too rounded for to do this, but we could go like this.
This was kind of funny, but what it basically does is it will create points everywhere that I click
as a point.
So we can make a square version of myself if you want.
We could do my beard at least because kind of like a diamond.
Cause I didn't do it right.
But that's all right.
You get the idea and what you're going to do is when you close this up to end the selection, you need
to find this little circular item here.
And then when I click, then it selects it.
OK, so that's the polygon all lasso tool.
Now, what I want to do is I want to click on deselect.
And I'm hit.
Control has to save just to make sure that we save it.
And now we're going to take it.
Talk about my favorite Lessel tool.
Even more so than the lasso tool.
The magnetic lasso tool.
This is the best tool.
When they first came out with it, I loved it and I still love it.
So if I hold.
If I left click and I hold and I just drag this around.
And I'm just going to do kind of a rough.
Photoshop into myself.
So if I go like this, we go up and around.
And again, you don't have to do this.
You can just watch me do this.
You can follow along if you want.
Try it out.
Don't worry if you mess up.
That's always part of the learning curve.
So what you can see here is what it will do is it will it's magnetic.
So what it's going to do is it's going to find the pixels that you're working with.
And it's going to.
Attach itself to those pixels.
And one of the ideas I'm going to kind of go crazy here, upswell.
And so it can get kind of out of hand if you don't.
Maintain control.
And what you're looking for is that little circle right next to it for the selection tool.
Now, if I had to leave it, let's see how I did.
Come on, man.
So here and then heftily.
OK.
There we go.
Make sure you have layer's zero.
Select him.
I mean, it controls D d select.
And you can see that's a pretty clean.
Around here, anyway, appear.
You know, my hair is kind of a pain.
So that's that's a little more of a touch up.
And really, you got to get in there and really delete everything, which you don't want to use the
lasso tool for this.
This is more of like this, too.
I'm not going to get in depth with the magic eraser tool is really what that's for, because you can
just go in and kind of erase certain ones.
OK, now, I'm not like I said, I don't want to get into too much detail on this because we're gonna
talk about this later in the cast.
But the reason why I would use that to one side of the lasso tool is, you know, how hard that would
be to like do this.
You'll be here all week, try and, you know, go like this.
And William, let me do it.
See, the magnetic lasso tool is similar to the polygon lasso tool where it bases it off of points.
Now, you could do it in certain areas to touch it up, to get the white out of my hair so that you
can add your background in there.
But the idea here is, is that you can see how crisp this is.
I goofed up here.
But look look how nice this edge looks.
OK, I missed messed up a little bit there.
Over there.
And here it's clean.
OK.
There's a little white there.
But again, that's just touch up.
And there's a lot of tools that we can use to touch that up.
OK.
And then down here, if I look at this.
And so one way to tell here is if we go to the layers panel and we make a new layer and we put it below
the image.
Right.
And I click on the default colors here and then I just give it a black background.
OK.
That really will tell you how we did.
OK.
So some people wouldn't like this and say, well, that's kind of tacky.
Other people would say, well, you know, that's kind of a nice effect.
And if you really wanted to add to that effect, I'll show you how to do that.
So if we go to the effects panel here and we add stroke to my image and we go white.
Right.
We can kind of get away with this fact because.
It was a white background, so that's a little too much, but you can see now we outlined my whole frame
here.
And it also did the bottom.
So we had to fix that part.
But the point is, is that you can work around this and make it work to your advantage if you really
wanted to.
So that's what you always got to remember.
And so going to control D that her Z that sorry, not control D.
And I'm going to erase the black layer here.
OK.
And then what am I to do is I'm going to grab the marquee tool that we learned earlier and I'm going
to go up and delete here, OK?
And then we're going to go over and delete there.
And then we'll go down and delete.
So, again, the magnetic lasso tool really is for getting around the edges here and wanted its bases
premise based premises, as is that it's creating points.
So every spot on my beard, on my face, on my neck, everything I'm doing.
It's a point.
So it's it's a attracted to the pixels.
And you can see the.
The frequency here.
OK.
So let me go quick so you can edit the frequency.
So what that's gonna do is it's going to base it on the density of the color.
So the higher you go with this, the more sensitive it's gonna be, the lower you go.
It'll be less sensitive.
Right.
So we want to keep this as as.
But again, the point of this is, is that if you want to really get tight on the edit and make it look
as cool and professional as possible, the easiest way to do it is like this.
You just two small points.
And it's it's a very tedious task and it takes a long time.
But your product will look a lot better than if you just do long strokes like this.
Right.
So we can go down here and then come up here.
And then I can believe there.
And then that will clean up anything else that we need to.
And remember, there's other tools that we can use with this tool to really get this the way that we
want it.
OK.
So what I'm going to do now is we're gonna go to the deselect save set in.
And I'm undo file save.
And we're gonna save this.
And then the next video.
We're going to learn about the object selection tool.
So thank you so much for watching.
I'll see in the next video.