Feathered fruit bowl

Magic wand

Fruit bowl 3 (magnetic lasso)

Magnetic lasso

1. I used the Magnetic lasso tool and a bit of the eraser tool. I used the magnetic tool for everything but the dark shadow remained so i had to use the eraser tool to get rid of it.

2. I found the magnetic lasso tool the most effective and quickest. It was very simple aswell.

3. If you expand the selection, the marquee becomes greater by however many pixels you set it as. If you contract the selection, the marquee becomes smaller by however many pixels you set it as. Feathering rounds off the selection and fades the edges a bit by the set amount of pixels.