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Welcome back.

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So in this video, we're to talk about one of my favorite tools in Photoshop.

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The lasso tool.

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So first we're gonna grab the lasso tool.

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And I'll show you how this works.

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So the idea behind this is it's kind of like a selection tool, right?

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You can go like this and come up here.

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Round came a beautiful face there.

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And then bring it back down.

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And then you're going to look for.

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The little circle doesn't.

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Come on, where are you?

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Are you trying to connect us?

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There you go.

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So what I did there is I selected kind of a weird selection, so let's dislike this control.

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And we'll do this again.

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So what you're going to do is it's kind of a freeform selection tool.

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OK, so I can select all of that, and if I had to leave, I go bye bye.

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If I undo that with control Z, I stay there.

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Now, the other way, we can utilize this tool, which is really cool.

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And takes a little bit of practice and.

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Not my steady hand here, but what you can do.

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As I can go here and down and come back.

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OK.

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And I can hit.

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OK, so I can remove part of the background with that and I can come up here and do the same thing,

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which I'm kind of getting a little wild here.

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But let me try this in this corner and then come over here and down.

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And like I said, this is why, like in the previous video, he's the marquee tool for this part.

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The rectangular mark talk because it's a square background.

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So you don't really need the lasso tool for this specific part, but you would use it for this, like

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when you're gonna go here and do kind of the touch up, which I'm just kind of rough.

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So I cut my beard off.

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And then if I come back here with my rough thing here.

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So like I was saying, you can use the lasso tool to kind of cut around here and really cut out some

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of the tighter edges here, like if I zoom in.

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So what I do is I hit the the Z key here, so I'll just.

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If you had Z.

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Let me just.

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Right.

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Click on that.

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You can see it.

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So the letter Z.

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And then you can zoom in with that.

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And then just click on.

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And so if we hit L, which is for the lasso tool, we can go in here and we can really go close and

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you can see him and I cut over.

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But that's alright for this example.

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And we can come back here and come up and back around and right here.

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And then they go in and hit delete.

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And it's going to cut off my ear.

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But again, when you zoom out, you're not going to be able to tell.

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But that's really what the lasso tools for is.

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It's more for touch up, getting real close on the edges and then working inside of here and then deleting

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it.

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And that's really what I've used it for when I Photoshop stuff, as I use it specifically for that.

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And they're trying to kill it off, but they have other tools that really do a better job of the same

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function.

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And so it becomes less and less used when they start making better tools.

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Are new adobe.

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I'm just getting I think it's great what they're doing.

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So keep up the good work.

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But again, what you see here is if I grabbed the lasso tool, the letter L and I do the same thing

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as we were doing before, we can make kind of a more of a defined edit when we're gonna, like, block

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out this color right here.

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Right.

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So if I zoom in, let's zoom out just a little bit so you don't look at every go.

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And if I grab the lasso tool here and we just draw kind of a tight.

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Oval shape or rectangular shape here.

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And then I do the brush.

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OK.

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And let's do the eyedropper, so hit the letter I and then drop that color.

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And then the B for brush.

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So that'll fill it in.

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And then when I zoom out, you can't even tell that I added that because it's a more tighter edit.

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It's a tighter touch up.

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We can't really tell.

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You can tell there.

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But when I zoom out to here, unless you did the edit, you're not going to know because that's the

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point.

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That's that's the key to a to a really good photo editor.

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Is that you can't tell that was Photoshopped.

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That's what you want to get to.

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Like, if you're just starting out, you're not going to be there right away, which is fine.

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But again, if I if I zoom in here and I do the same thing here and I do it even tighter than before.

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And I just kind of hover over the colors that I want to block out.

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And then we do the same thing, we grabbed the brush and we do that and then we zoom out, you can see

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it there, but when I go out far, that that's more terrible than the other one.

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But the good thing is, is I can undo this if I undo.

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Undo.

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And then I use the eyedropper.

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But not the brush, sorry.

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Here I am for me.

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And then do the eyedropper and then grab the brush with B and then zoom out and that should take care

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of it.

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And that does once you zoom out.

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You can't tell.

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This is Photoshopped.

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OK, because again, when you get to the image, if it's on social media or whatever it's on, it's

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only going to be probably 50 to 100 percent or 33 percent.

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So you're not going to be able to tell what I've done with it.

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Now, what I want you to do is we're going to undo all of our changes here.

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So one way we can do it is it control Z until it goes back, OK?

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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

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top and click on D Select.

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And what that's gonna do is instead of having to do a control on control Z 15 times or 30 times or however

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many times we edited, you just go right to the top of the history D Select.

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And there you go.

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So we're going to save this.

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And now what we're going to do is we're in to talk about the Polygon all Lessel tool.

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OK.

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So this is a little different.

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So this is more of a.

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What the name of the tool is Polygon all tool.

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So this is, again, not really for this particular project here of Photoshop in my face, my shirt,

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my hair, the background, et cetera.

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This is more for if you have a.

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Angular object that you need to create points with and go around like that, because this would not

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be easy to do with my face, really.

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I mean, you could try it.

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Just kind of.

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Yeah, I'm I'm too.

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My head is too rounded for to do this, but we could go like this.

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This was kind of funny, but what it basically does is it will create points everywhere that I click

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as a point.

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So we can make a square version of myself if you want.

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We could do my beard at least because kind of like a diamond.

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Cause I didn't do it right.

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But that's all right.

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You get the idea and what you're going to do is when you close this up to end the selection, you need

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to find this little circular item here.

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And then when I click, then it selects it.

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OK, so that's the polygon all lasso tool.

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Now, what I want to do is I want to click on deselect.

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And I'm hit.

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Control has to save just to make sure that we save it.

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And now we're going to take it.

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Talk about my favorite Lessel tool.

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Even more so than the lasso tool.

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The magnetic lasso tool.

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This is the best tool.

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When they first came out with it, I loved it and I still love it.

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So if I hold.

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If I left click and I hold and I just drag this around.

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And I'm just going to do kind of a rough.

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Photoshop into myself.

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So if I go like this, we go up and around.

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And again, you don't have to do this.

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You can just watch me do this.

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You can follow along if you want.

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Try it out.

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Don't worry if you mess up.

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That's always part of the learning curve.

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So what you can see here is what it will do is it will it's magnetic.

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So what it's going to do is it's going to find the pixels that you're working with.

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And it's going to.

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Attach itself to those pixels.

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And one of the ideas I'm going to kind of go crazy here, upswell.

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And so it can get kind of out of hand if you don't.

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Maintain control.

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And what you're looking for is that little circle right next to it for the selection tool.

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Now, if I had to leave it, let's see how I did.

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Come on, man.

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So here and then heftily.

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There we go.

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Make sure you have layer's zero.

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Select him.

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I mean, it controls D d select.

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And you can see that's a pretty clean.

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Around here, anyway, appear.

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You know, my hair is kind of a pain.

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So that's that's a little more of a touch up.

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And really, you got to get in there and really delete everything, which you don't want to use the

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lasso tool for this.

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This is more of like this, too.

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I'm not going to get in depth with the magic eraser tool is really what that's for, because you can

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just go in and kind of erase certain ones.

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OK, now, I'm not like I said, I don't want to get into too much detail on this because we're gonna

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talk about this later in the cast.

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But the reason why I would use that to one side of the lasso tool is, you know, how hard that would

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be to like do this.

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You'll be here all week, try and, you know, go like this.

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And William, let me do it.

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See, the magnetic lasso tool is similar to the polygon lasso tool where it bases it off of points.

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Now, you could do it in certain areas to touch it up, to get the white out of my hair so that you

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can add your background in there.

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But the idea here is, is that you can see how crisp this is.

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I goofed up here.

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But look look how nice this edge looks.

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OK, I missed messed up a little bit there.

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And here it's clean.

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There's a little white there.

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But again, that's just touch up.

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And there's a lot of tools that we can use to touch that up.

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And then down here, if I look at this.

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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

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the image.

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And I click on the default colors here and then I just give it a black background.

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That really will tell you how we did.

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So some people wouldn't like this and say, well, that's kind of tacky.

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Other people would say, well, you know, that's kind of a nice effect.

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And if you really wanted to add to that effect, I'll show you how to do that.

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So if we go to the effects panel here and we add stroke to my image and we go white.

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We can kind of get away with this fact because.

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It was a white background, so that's a little too much, but you can see now we outlined my whole frame

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here.

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And it also did the bottom.

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So we had to fix that part.

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But the point is, is that you can work around this and make it work to your advantage if you really

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wanted to.

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So that's what you always got to remember.

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And so going to control D that her Z that sorry, not control D.

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And I'm going to erase the black layer here.

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And then what am I to do is I'm going to grab the marquee tool that we learned earlier and I'm going

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to go up and delete here, OK?

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And then we're going to go over and delete there.

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And then we'll go down and delete.

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So, again, the magnetic lasso tool really is for getting around the edges here and wanted its bases

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premise based premises, as is that it's creating points.

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So every spot on my beard, on my face, on my neck, everything I'm doing.

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It's a point.

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So it's it's a attracted to the pixels.

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And you can see the.

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The frequency here.

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So let me go quick so you can edit the frequency.

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So what that's gonna do is it's going to base it on the density of the color.

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So the higher you go with this, the more sensitive it's gonna be, the lower you go.

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It'll be less sensitive.

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So we want to keep this as as.

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But again, the point of this is, is that if you want to really get tight on the edit and make it look

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as cool and professional as possible, the easiest way to do it is like this.

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You just two small points.

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And it's it's a very tedious task and it takes a long time.

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But your product will look a lot better than if you just do long strokes like this.

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Right.

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So we can go down here and then come up here.

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And then I can believe there.

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And then that will clean up anything else that we need to.

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And remember, there's other tools that we can use with this tool to really get this the way that we

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want it.

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OK.

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So what I'm going to do now is we're gonna go to the deselect save set in.

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And I'm undo file save.

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And we're gonna save this.

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And then the next video.

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We're going to learn about the object selection tool.

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So thank you so much for watching.

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I'll see in the next video.