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- Miss the Old Default Actions?
- Rearranging your Brushes
- Find the Center of Any Document
- No More Jaggy Lasso Tool Selections
- Open Up Some Screen Real Estate
- Let Photoshop Do the Work in Curves
- Want a Finer Grid? You Got It!
- You Don't Need the Brushes Palette to Change Brush Size
- Rotate to Any Angle the Fast Way
- Get Rid of Unwanted Brushes
- Brushes Right Where You Want 'em
- Navigating the Brush Picker Like a Pro
- Get More Control Over Your Paint Strokes
- Speed Tip to Rotate Through Open Images
- Instantly Find the Center of Any Object
- Making Your Guide Flip
- Creating Temporary Brushes
- Reusing Your Last Curve Setting
- Bringing Back Those Cropped-Away Areas
- Fix Those Stray Pixels Fast!
- Getting More Control over the Magic Wand
- Making the Color Palette Work Twice as Hard
- Use Your Last Settings and Save Time
- Hit Those Channels Fast
- How to Get an Undo After You've Closed the Document
- Using the Pen? Stay Away from the Toolbox
- Put Your Gradient Picker at Your Fingertips
- Don't Click in That Field!
- Out of Memory? Try This First
- How to Unerase
- Let Photoshop Straighten Your Crooked Scans
- Copy One Layer, or Copy 'em All
- Stuck in a Field? Here's How to Escape
- Don't Cancel; Reset and Save Time
- See Every Tweak with Bigger Filter Gallery Previews
- Showing One Effect in the Filter Gallery
- Use the Move Tool Anytime
- Filter Gallery Zoom Quick Tip
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
NO MORE JAGGY LASSO TOOL SELECTIONS
Have you ever tried to create a smooth selection using the Lasso tool? It's just about impossible, right? (If it sounds like it isn't, give it a try—open a new document, take the Lasso tool, and draw any random selection, and then look at the selection. It's jaggy—not crazy jaggy, but it's certainly not smooth.) If you were trying to create a selection for an interface design, or a realistic element of some sort, it would just be too jaggy to use. Here's a tip:
- Press L to get the Lasso tool and draw around the area you want to use as your selection.
- Press the letter Q to enter Quick Mask mode (your selection will now be surrounded with a reddish hue).
- Go under the Filter menu, under Noise, and choose Median. As you move the Radius slider to the right, you'll see your edges smooth out.
- When it looks nice and smooth, click OK then press the letter Q again to return to Standard mode, and you'll have nothing but a nice rounded selection.
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Look at the selection in the first image above. See how those jaggies have been replaced by the smooth edges—courtesy of the Median filter?
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