The Photoshop Magnetic Lasso Tool

Video Transcript

"Now I'm going to show you another lasso tool option. It's the magnetic lasso tool. So if we turn over to our screen here we can see that I've got my picture up. What I'm going to do is come over to my lasso tool and I'm going to click on it and hold down and I come down and you can see the bottom one here is the magnetic lasso tool. Now with the magnetic lasso tool does is it will come over here and find the definitions between the colors and actually move itself along. See how it's creating it's own points? Sometimes it does that. Sometimes it will get confused at which you want especially if you move your mouse around a lot. If I move it down here to the white, like all of a sudden its created a point down there by the white. I can click here, up around and as you can see it's going to create points how it feels. There you go. It's already selected so if I hit command E it will deselect it. Let's come down here to the red of my boat. This one should be an easy one. Now as you can see it's just going to lay it right down on that boat all the way across. It's going to choose them as it wants to. I'm not clicking anything I'm just dragging my mouse around the edge of the boat here trying to keep it as simple as possible. There you go. See that it's selected everything that we needed. So let's come over here and see the little zero popped up that means we've completed and there you go. There's your easy select tool right there. Magnetic tool is very simple and very easy to use so play around with it, have fun, and enjoy."