Other ways to select part of an image

The Magnetic Lasso is the third tool in the Lasso group; it sticks like a magnet to the edge of an object that stands out sharply from the background. We click one point of the edge and move the mouse along it: anchor points appear on the line by themselves, a wrong point is removed with Backspace, in unclear places a point can be forced by clicking, and returning to the start and double-clicking closes the selection. The Magic Wand (key W) selects all pixels around the clicked pixel whose colour is close to it; the closeness is set by the Tolerance value on the options bar (0 to 255): when it grows, more colours are selected. A uniform background is very easy to select, but the background in a real photo consists of nearby colours, so instead of raising Tolerance too much it is better to hold Shift and click several places of the background one after another. Quick Selection is like the magic wand, but the area is grown step by step by dragging like a brush; newer versions also have Select → Subject and Object Selection, which find the object automatically. If you selected the background rather than the object, Select → Inverse (Ctrl+Shift+I) swaps the selection.