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Create a Feathered Selection
The Marquee tool you used in the previous exercise created a basic rectangular
selection. The basic Lasso tool works like a pencil, following the path where you drag
the mouse; you will use that method in this exercise.
1. With cd-artwork.psd open, open Lightning.jpg from your WIP>Music folder.

2. Choose the Lasso tool in the Tools panel. In the Control panel, choose the
New Selection option.
Most options in the Control panel are the same for the Lasso tool as they are for the
Marquee tools.

3. Click at the top edge of the canvas, just to the left of the lightning bolt.
Hold down the mouse button and drag around the general lightning
shape in the image. Keep the following points in mind as you drag:
• Avoid dragging past the bottom edge of the canvas.

• Drag past the right image edge and up to the top of the image.
When you drag past the image edge, the marquee follows the image edge
instead of the actual cursor position.

New Selection
is active.
Lasso tool

Click here first. The marquee follows
the image edge if you
Drag around drag past the edge.
the shape of
the lightning.
Avoid the
bottom edge
of the image.

4. Release the mouse button.
When you release the mouse button, the software automatically connects the first
point you clicked with the last location of the mouse cursor with a straight line. Note:

It isn’t uncommon for
The selection a mouse to unexpect-
automatically edly jump when you
connects the start don’t want it to. If you
and end points. aren’t happy with your
Lasso selection, choose
Select>Deselect, and
then try again.

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