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Introduction
This is the final result of this episode, the Color Splash effect, the red car remains lit while the background windmill and road turn black and white, the result of the polygonal lasso selection. Let's get started. Hello, welcome back to the complete Adobe Photoshop series from Cerdas Inovasi Digital. Today we are discussing the lasso family, the free lasso, the polygonal lasso, and the magnetic lasso. We will practice selecting the red car and then creating the popular Color Splash effect. Open the photo of the red car near the windmill.
Step 1: Free Lasso
Select the lasso tool or press L. Draw around the object as if drawing with a pencil, then release, and the line automatically closes. The free lasso is suitable for rough selections, but it is difficult to make neat. Press Ctrl D to deselect.
Step 2: Polygonal Lasso
For sharp edges, select the polygonal lasso tool from the same group. The way it works is click by click, each click creates a corner point. Start from the front bumper, then follow the engine hood, front windshield, roof, and the back part. For curved areas like the wheels, add more clicks with short distances.
Step 3: Closing the Selection
Return to the starting point until a small circle appears under the cursor, then click to close the selection. If you click incorrectly, press backspace to delete the last point. The magnetic lasso in the same group works similarly, but the line automatically sticks to the contrasting edges.
Step 4: Smoothing and Inverting
Give a feather of 1 pixel so the edge of the car does not have jagged edges, then invert the selection with Shift Ctrl I. Now the selected area is the background, sky, windmill, grass, and road. Click the black and white icon in the adjustment panel.
Step 5: Black and White on the Background
The mask layer automatically forms from the selection, so only the background turns black and white, while the car remains red. Adjust the blues slider to the left to make the sky slightly darker and more dramatic.
Step 6: Checking the Mask Edge
Zoom in to the edge of the car to check the result. If there is a little color leakage, swipe black or white paint over the mask layer. Return to full view, then save as PSD and export as JPG.
Done!
Done. We've used the lasso tool, the polygonal lasso tool, clicked-by-click, learned the magnetic lasso, added a feeder, flipped the selection, and created a color splash effect with the black and white adjustment. In the next episode, we'll use the magic wand and tolerance. Need to edit product photos for marketplaces, retouch photos, design posters, or create social media content? Cerdas Inovasi Digital provides photo editing and graphic design services, as well as Photoshop courses from beginner to advanced. Want to master all of these series, 102 episodes from the interface to the final project? All episodes, complete with PDF step-by-step guides, source images, and layered PSD files, are available for premium tutorial subscribers. Subscribe starting at Rp69.000 per month, save 28% with the 12-month package, or pay once Rp999.000 for lifetime access. Want just one class? Buy single classes with lifetime access. Subscribe now at the premium page cerdasinovasidigital.com Contact us via WhatsApp, or visit cerdasinovasidigital.com Thank you for watching, see you in the next episode.
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