Magnetic Lasso Tool

[Cellman_1]

Every one talks all about the Polygon lasso but does noone use the Magnetic one...and if you don't why not?

Seems like it works very well...and is easier to select lines I used it to chop the girl in my sig.

[groomi]

only use it when uve got a high contrast selection eg. between black and white sections, or it goes nutz

[Tony]

yea its a good tool, but dont' always work as well as you need it too. A good way to use it when it does go nuts is just use it to get as much of it selected and then go clean up with the poly lasso. Thats what I usually do.

[Cellman_1]

is there a setting to make the poly find the edges better...Ii suck with it.LOL

[simdel1]

practice...and remember that the zoom button is your friend

[spididdy]

Originally posted by Tony
yea its a good tool, but dont' always work as well as you need it too. A good way to use it when it does go nuts is just use it to get as much of it selected and then go clean up with the poly lasso. Thats what I usually do.

why do that when you could just use the polygon tool. it comes out way smoother and if you use the magnetic and then go over with the poly thats just double the work. illl just stick to the polygon tool.

[crxlvr]

the magnetic tool is only good to me when im doing rims and shit, but even then ill prolly stick the poly instead.

[numbware]

i rarely use the lasso tools. i stick to masking around my selection, or masking what i want and inverting it.

[Cellman_1]

EXAMPLE?

[numbware]

what do you mean? do you not know how to do it? i could put together a tutorial.

[Cellman_1]

Please do as I have not done it that way.

[Tony]

Originally posted by simdel1
practice...and remember that the zoom button is your friend

the zoom is all good with the poly lasso tool, but not that good with the magnetic lasso because you can't scroll that well with it.

And I wasn't saying that I use the magnetic lasso all the time, just works sometimes. A lot of the time i use the poly lasso because of how clean it is, just depends on what im working on and if i need the edges that clean or not. When I do use the magnetic lasso, i use the feather function along with it to feather the edge out some.

[simdel1]

Originally posted by Tony


the zoom is all good with the poly lasso tool, but not that good with the magnetic lasso because you can't scroll that well with it.

sorry, i didnt make my self clear at all. i was talking about the poly lasso. i was simply replying to cellmans question of how to make poly lasso tool work better.

i have only used the magnetic one once, and found it very anoying

[numbware]

cellman, here's a tut that I used when getting started.