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The Photoshop Polygonal Lasso Tool

The Polygonal Lasso Tool, another of Photoshop's basic selection tools, is perfect for selecting objects in a photo with many straight, flat surfaces or sides, allowing us to draw as many sides as we need in any direction with just the click of a mouse!

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Selection With The Pen Tool

You are about to tackle one of the tougher tools within Photoshop, the Pen Tool. Because we are a beginner/intermediate site, today we are just going to go over the basics of how to use the Pen Tool to make a selection. Back in the Text Features tutorial, we showed you how to type on a Path and you created the Path using the Pen Tool. Today we take you 1 step closer to learning this feared tool.

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Layer masks in Photoshop

We have now gone over the basics of masking, let's take this tutorial and add on to your knowledge and learn more basic functions of Layer Masks. In this tutorial we will be showing you another way to copy from one image to another image. We will show you a quicker way to create a Layer Mask and how to disable/enable the Layer Mask. In the past, we have explained how to crop a full image and in today's course we will show you how you can crop a layer. Finally the reveal all versus hide all will be explained.

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Masking And Transform Information

Have you ever tapped off portions of a room before you painted it? Well then you have already masked before. In Photoshop you paint on a mask and in this tutorial we will be showing you how to do a Quick Mask to select an area and what a Layer mask is. We stated back in the Eraser tool tutorial that once you learn how to mask an image; you will never want to go back to the eraser tool. We will also be showing that the Transform Path which we explained in a previous tutorial is exactly the same as the Transform option.

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64 essential guides to master Photoshop

A compilation of 64 Photoshop guides, tutorials and cheatsheets that will help you to master Photoshop.

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The Photoshop Lasso Tool

Photoshop's Lasso Tool is probably the easiest of the selection tools to use, allowing us to draw freehand selections around objects in a photo as if we were outlining them on paper with a pen or pencil. We'll learn how to combine it with Photoshop's ability to add and remove areas of a selection to fix up problem areas and dramatically improve your results!

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The Photoshop Elliptical Marquee Tool

The Rectangular Marquee Tool may be one of the easiest Photoshop selection tools to use, but it isn't much help to us when we need to draw oval or circular selections. That's where the Elliptical Marquee Tool comes in, and it's every bit as simple. In fact, the Elliptical Marquee Tool is really just the Rectangular Marquee Tool with extremely rounded corners!

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Save web layouts as CSS in photoshop

This is going to be a very short tutorial explaining what options you need to tweak to save your web layouts in CSS instead of the default setting of tables in photoshop.

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More Photoshop Layer Options

In this tutorial we will walk you through even more of the Layer options. In the first tutorial called Learning Layers With Ease we showed you the basics of Layers and now it is time to expand your knowledge by explaining how to create a new blank layer (2 different methods) to attaching a color identifier to a layer. We will even explain how to copy a layer from one image and add it to another image. Finally we will discuss how to group layers and what is the "Flatten Image" option.

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The Rectangular Marquee Tool

Being able to select objects or areas in a photo is one of the most important Photoshop skills you need, but not all selections need to be complex or time consuming. In this tutorial, we look at one of Photoshop's most basic and easy to use selection tools, the Rectangular Marquee Tool, perfect for making selections based on simple geometric shapes.

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