

You can cycle through the three lasso tools from your keyboard. Select the other two from the fly-out menu. The lasso tool you selected last appears in the Tools panel. To access it, click and hold your mouse button down on the Lasso Tool until a fly-out menu appears, then select the Magnetic Lasso Tool from the list:

Like the Polygonal Lasso Tool, the Magnetic Lasso Tool can be found nested behind the standard Lasso Tool in the Tools panel. We've already looked at the first two - the standard Lasso Tool and the Polygonal Lasso Tool - in previous tutorials. The Magnetic Lasso Tool is one of three lasso tools in Photoshop.
#Magic lasso tool how to
This tutorial is from our How to make selections in Photoshop series.ĭownload this tutorial as a print-ready PDF! It's called the Magnetic Lasso Tool, and with a little practice and a basic understanding of how it works, not only will you be a believer, but you just may find yourself hopelessly attracted to it. That person is just messin' with your head.īut what if someone told you there's a selection tool that can select an object with, say, 80-90% accuracy and all you have to do is drag that same lazy outline around it? Would you believe them now? Still no? Well, that's too bad, because there really is a selection tool like that. If someone told you there's a selection tool in Photoshop that can select an object in a photo with 100% accuracy and all you have to do is drag a loose, lazy outline around the object with your mouse, would you believe them? No? Good for you.
