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  Fast and easy selection with Polygonal Lasso Tool in Photoshop

  391 readersPolygonal Lasso tool is perfect for outlining object with straight edges such as buildings. You can also simulate curving organic edge by using the refine edge tool later. (L) Short cut key to activate the Lasso, hold shift to cycle through the different lasso tool or click and hold the Lasso icon to choose the different

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  How to use Rectangle/Oval Marquee Tool

  481 readersRectangle and Oval Marquee tool is great for quick geometric selection for drawing shapes, creating boarders, outlining geometric object in a photo etc… Hit M on keyboard to activate the Marquee tool, hold Shift + M to switch between Rectangle and Oval Marquee. Click and drag to draw your marquee, do not worry if you can’t get

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  Pen/Path Tool in Photoshop

  321 readersWhy use a Pen tool to draw or make selection? Because it gives you better control and higher precision that other tools cannot give you.   Pen tool can be intimidating at first but once you learn it everything you touch with have a more professional look. You will get a clean and accurately outlined selection on

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  How to Refine Edge of a selection in Photoshop

  321 readersAfter creating your selection you can further refine the edge of the selection. With the Refine Edge tool you can expand, contract, soften and even automatically trace the nearest edge. Refine edge is available in many selection tool’s menu, usually the very last button as well as under the menu Select-Refine Edge or using the shortcut

• Magnetic Lasso Switch

  201 readersIf you are working with the Magnetic Lasso tool and need to access the Polygonal Lasso tool, press-and-hold the Option (PC: Alt) key and click. That will automatically switch you to the Polygonal Lasso tool. UPDATE: Dave Cross just ran in and added a variation to this: if you press-and-hold the Option (PC: Alt) key

• Magnetic Lasso Switch

  216 readersIf you are working with the Magnetic Lasso tool and need to access the Polygonal Lasso tool, press-and-hold the Option (PC: Alt) key and click. That will automatically switch you to the Polygonal Lasso tool. UPDATE: Dave Cross just ran in and added a variation to this: if you press-and-hold the Option (PC: Alt) key

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  How to use Magic Wand in Photoshop.

  269 readersIf you need to quickly select an area of similar color such as replacing the sky or a green screen Magic Wand is your tool. Activate Magic Wand by hitting (W) key or select it from the tool box. Magic wand works by selecting similar colors in your photo, so if you have a photo of  a

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  Using Crop tool on Photoshop

  2350 readersThere is more to just making your photo smaller and trimming away unwanted edges to the Crop Tool. You can also add more pixel, align, match dimension of another file etc… You can access the Crop Tool by using the shortcut C or go to the tool bar and click on the crop tool The most common

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  Using clone stamp on Photoshop (with Video)

  524 readersClone stamp is not just for cloning objects in photos, you can also “erase” them. Blemishes and wrinkles can be magically erased from your model’s faces as well as that annoying person who somehow made it in to your photo. To start, select the clone stamp on your tool bar or press S on keyboard. You will

• Quick shapes

  200 readersUse the Lasso tool (L) or Polygo-nal Lasso tool to rough-in a shape. After making your selection, open the Paths panel (Window>Paths), press-and-hold the Option (PC: Alt) key, and click the Make Work Path From Selection icon at the bottom of the panel. Choose a suitable Tolerance from the ensuing dialog and click OK to