How to Make Freehand Selections?

Selections can be great help when you want to alter or adjust one specific portion and leave others unaffected.

 

Step 1. Select the “Lasso Tool” in the Tools panel.

 

Step 2. Choose a selection mode in the Options panel. Lasso Tool has five selection modes available in the Options panel:

A	New selection	Creates a new selection
B	Add to selection	Adds a new selection to an existing selection
C	Subtract from selection	Subtracts from an existing selection
D	Intersect with selection	Selects the overlap of two selections
E	Invert the Intersected selection	Subtracts the overlap of two selections

 

Step 3. Drag to draw a freehand selection border.

Tip:
• To close the selection, release the mouse.

 

Step 4. Refine the selection if necessary.
You are able to move and scale the selection border by eight handles.

The result after adjusting the color: