| 1. | Select the Zoom tool ( ), and click the fountain-pen object as needed until the view enlarges to 100%. Make sure that you can see the entire pen in the window. |
| 2. | Select the Lasso tool ( ). Starting at the lower left of the image, drag around the rounded end of the fountain pen, tracing the shape as accurately as possible. Do not release the mouse button. |
| 3. | Hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS), and then release the mouse button so that the lasso pointer changes to the polygonal lasso shape ( ). Do not release the Alt or Option key. |
| 4. | Begin clicking along the top side of the cap and barrel of the pen to place anchor points, following the contours of the fountain pen. Be sure to keep the Alt or Option key held down throughout this process.The selection border automatically stretches like a rubber band between anchor points.  |
| 5. | When you reach the curved edge of the nib, keep the mouse button held down and then release the Alt or Option key. The pointer again appears as the lasso icon. |
| 6. | Carefully drag around the nib of the pen, keeping the mouse button down. |
| 7. | When you finish tracing the nib and reach the lower side of the barrel, first hold down Alt or Option again, and then release the mouse button and start clicking along the lower side of the pen. Continue to trace the pen until you arrive back at the starting point of your selection near the left end of the image. |
| 8. | Make sure that the click with the mouse crosses the start of the selection, and then release Alt or Option. The pen is now entirely selected. Leave the pen selected for the next exercise.  |
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