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Make Really Precise Selections?

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The king of all selection tools (well, in my mind anyway) is the Pen tool (P), because it makes precise selections, which can be easily adjusted after the fact. Best of all, it makes perfect curves around objects, which is a bigger deal than it sounds. There are actually five Pen tools, but you’ll use the regular Pen tool about 95% of the time. It kind of works like a “connect-the-dots” tool, in that you click once to choose your starting point, then you move your cursor somewhere else and click again, and it draws ...

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