Part of Lesson Plan: Making Selections with Lasso Tools

Activity Overview / Details

Look at the images you saved for your digital composite project.

• How are we going to move the animals, buildings, people, equipment and vehicles to your selected background?
• Do they have a solid background?
• Are they a solid color?
• Are they round or square?
• Does it have a defined edge?

These are the questions you need to answer to choose the correct selection tool to move the individual images to your digital composition.

There are various selection techniques we can use: Marquee Tools, Lasso Tools, Color Range, Magic Wand and Quick Selection Tool.

Today we are going to learn how to make selections using the Magnetic Lasso tool.  This tool works well when an object has a defined edge, but doesn’t have to be particular shape.