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This tutorial will help you to improve your magnetic lasso tool usage, and to apply a kind of vector effect to the Opera House. The Opera Houseis one of the most distinctive and famous 20th century buildings, and one of the most famous performing arts venues in the world. Click hereto download the original image.

Step 1

Select with the magnetic lasso tool all around the glazed roof.

Step 2

Create a new layer, select the gradient tool (white to transparent) and trace several lines from the bottom to the top and from from the top to the bottom to make this kind of effect, it’s not easy to recreate exactly what you see below, but you will make something similar.

Step 3

Select the bottom of the building and apply the Cutout filter (number of level 8, edge simplicity 3, edge fidelity 3)

Step 4

Select all the layers and paste all of them into a new document

Step 5

Set the foreground color as “002346″ and the background color as “bddffe”. Select the background layer and with the gradient tool, trace a line from the bottom to the top of the document.

Source: http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorial/Magnetic-lasso-tool-usage-and-vector-effect./20210