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This is probably a fairly simple question, and I’m mad at myself for not being able to remember how to do this.
I had a Photoshop class in college a couple terms ago, and we were shown how to select an area with, I believe it was, the Polygonal Lasso Tool, than the selection path ("marching ants" or whatever they’re called) had different points which could be moved to get a better control of what was selected.
I’m not really sure if I’m making any sense. But, for example, you could have a picture of a hand and using the Lasso Tool you could pretty much make a basic hexagon around the hand, than you could move the different selection path points to outline the fingers, wrist, ect. to get better detail and control.
What I’m trying to do is select three different areas of an image so I can erase them, and other sections I want to select and recolor. But there are some strange shapes and it’s hard to get the Lasso Tool to get around them perfectly when doing it. It would be easier to be able to outline it than perfect the selection path once it’s outlined.
Hopefully I’m making sense. But how do you do this– show the different points and edit them? Any help would be appreciated.
And in case it’s needed, I’m using Photoshop CS2.
I had a Photoshop class in college a couple terms ago, and we were shown how to select an area with, I believe it was, the Polygonal Lasso Tool, than the selection path ("marching ants" or whatever they’re called) had different points which could be moved to get a better control of what was selected.
I’m not really sure if I’m making any sense. But, for example, you could have a picture of a hand and using the Lasso Tool you could pretty much make a basic hexagon around the hand, than you could move the different selection path points to outline the fingers, wrist, ect. to get better detail and control.
What I’m trying to do is select three different areas of an image so I can erase them, and other sections I want to select and recolor. But there are some strange shapes and it’s hard to get the Lasso Tool to get around them perfectly when doing it. It would be easier to be able to outline it than perfect the selection path once it’s outlined.
Hopefully I’m making sense. But how do you do this– show the different points and edit them? Any help would be appreciated.
And in case it’s needed, I’m using Photoshop CS2.
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