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Originally Posted by willhunt
When selecting, or "cutting out" a knife from the background, I use the polygonal lasso tool, with no pixel feather.
Just wondering what everyone else uses, or if maybe I am I way off the mark.
Again, referring to the Polygonal lasso tool, I'm not quite sure that my settings are the best. The image looks OK to me, but I'd appreciate any input as to how I might "step it up" a notch.
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I can see a couple of little places where your selection line was off just a bit. when you paste in the inset then create your drop shadow layer (layer - layer style - drop shadow) often the irregularities are highlighted. These can sometimes be eliminated quickly and nicely with a blur brush set to darken or a burn tool set to darken highlights, midtones or shadows, depending.
The polygonal lasso is a good tool. I use it at 0 feather. but I've totally switched over to the pen tool which creates a path that then gets converted to a selection. It's easier for me to get good lines and curves with the pen tool. All of your shots are looking really good.