Making a Brochure Ad, Using Filters, Magnetic Lasso Tool - Part 2

In the illustration you can see the selection is being drawn by the magnetic lasso tool Do check the values that i have set (in the option tool bar above). I have set the Frequency at which the points will be drawn to 100. This gives good and precise control. If you be a little patience and keep your mouse movement in a good slow pace you will end up with good results. Also note at sharp edges, you might not get the anchor points automatically, so you might have to click there to force an anchor point, you might need to do this occasionally.

Keep drawing until you reach the point from where you started, once you reach there, you will see a small ‘o’ appear, double click and you should get a selection.

A good idea is too zoom in a bit say at 300% and the draw, this lets you see the pixels clearly, and use the spacebar to pan around, this needs a little practice, since while panning you can easily mess up your selection which you are making with your lasso tool

After ending the selection, this what my selection looks like.

You might get some artifacts where the selection might not be properly aligned with the edge, in this case need not worry, you will have to do some manual tweaking. You can select the Elliptical Marquee tool, and the by using ALT( to subtract) or SHIFT (to Add) to the selection, you can adjust these errors.

Isloate this flower from its background. Before I cut it, I would like to soften the edges up a bit.

In the menu Select > Feather or
ALT+CTRL+D, and then set the feather amount to 2. Click OK

After the feather is applied, inverse the selection so that the background is selected.

Select > Inverse or Shift+Ctrl+I

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