Angelesa Ward - Selections

So for this assignment, I chose the marble pieces. I tried a variety of ways to try and grab everything, from the magic wand, to the magnetic lasso. I settled on a combination of the magnetic lasso, and excluding pieces with the magic wand. Then I zoomed in to about 400 pixels and cleaned up the edges. I added a drop shadow and a nice clean gradient of colors sampled from the ornaments in the bowl