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Lasso tool

The lasso (or "free form selection") is an selection tool available, with minor variations, in most digital image editing software and some specific strategy games. It is often accessed from the standard main menu (in Photoshop, Paint Tool SAI, and GIMP, as common examples), by clicking the icon of a rope lasso, from which the common name arises.

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Standard operation

Clicking and draggingMarching ants
2 related topics

Characteristics

Magic wandGrabcut
2 related topics

Technical description

Image processingMaskingAlpha compositing
3 related topics

Overview

SelectionImage editing softwareStrategy gamesPhotoshopPaint Tool SAI
7 related topics

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Standard operation

Characteristics

Technical description

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Map overview Semantic statistics

Lasso tool

Nodes19
Edges18
Triples9
Avg. degree1.89
Density0.105263
Components1

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Lasso tool

Top relations

related to Standard operation · 4
Lasso tool → At, It, Most, The

Important terminology Word statistics

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Important terminology

image lasso tool selection layer software active path standard selected citation needed free available clicking masking photoshop gimp edges typically

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
intelligent scissorsinstance ofCharacteristicsIn contrast to other image selection algorithms0.80text
magic wandinstance ofCharacteristicsIn contrast to other image selection algorithms0.80text
or grabcutinstance ofCharacteristicsIn contrast to other image selection algorithms0.80text
lassoing places no requirements on the imageinstance ofCharacteristicsIn contrast to other image selection algorithms0.80text
as the user is free to create any closed pathinstance ofCharacteristicsIn contrast to other image selection algorithms0.80text
Lasso toolrelated to Standard operationThe0.60section
Lasso toolrelated to Standard operationMost0.60section
Lasso toolrelated to Standard operationIt0.60section
Lasso toolrelated to Standard operationAt0.60section

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