So, let's get started by taking our Quick Selection brush and increasing the brush size a little bit with the right bracket key, and just drag around the gray background, and we have a raw selection. Just like in the last lesson, with the example of the landscape-the sky was just uniform blue, so everything that is not blue works. If we select just the background, which happens to be neutral gray, all it has to do is find what is different from neutral gray, and that is really easy. The computer has to deal with all of those different textures in finding what is different. If you selected her and her hair-we have dark hair here we have light hair here we have wispy hair here we have bright hair here we have golden hair here. Whichever of the two is less busy is what you want to do, because when you use the Refine Edge dialogue box and the Edge Detection feature, it knows what the selection is, and it's going to look for what is different.
Now, tip #1: when you're dealing with people, the question is, make the selection of the person or of the background? 0134 Here is Debby, and what we're going to do is select her hair. We're going to also deal with the Smoothing, Contrast, and Expand and Contract features with a second example. Let's get started selecting hair on people! 0118 It will be very valuable to you to go back and review this tutorial a couple of times it will save you a lot of heartache. There are several very important tips in this tutorial that are not found anywhere else.
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In CS5 and CS6 Photoshop, they came up with the hair Edge Detection feature that you saw with the landscape, and now I'm going to teach you how to do this with people and hair. Hair selection has always been the most difficult thing to do in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. 0058īut, the most frequently photographed subject in the world is people. Then, the magical Edge Detection feature that allows you to select fine details: we used an example of a landscape with tree line, and the fine leaves and branches-we were able to select those, and you couldn't do that in a million years another way-and stripped in a background. We talked about a very important feature, feather, that allows you to clean up your edge or make it very soft, so that the blends work, and we dealt, in the last lesson, with the Refine Edge dialogue box that lets you dynamically adjust a lot of features to existing selections that you can't do normally.
0017īut, the key with selections are the selection edge and making sure that the corrections blend flawlessly into the remainder of your image. Selections allow you to isolate areas for adjustment that you can't do in an overview or an overall adjustment, to make your images better than just an overall. We've been talking, in the last three lessons, about the most important technique in Photoshop Elements, and that is making accurate, flawless selections. Hi, everyone-Mike Brown with you again, with another lesson in Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 from ! 0000 Image Enhancement: Quick Edit & Guided Edit ModeĬrop, Straighten, Correct Perspective & DistortionĬreating Black & White Photo and Using the Colorize Option Organizer, Part 3: Keywords, People & Places Organizer, Part 2: Sorting, Rating & Refining Images
#HOW TO REFINE EDGES IN PHOTOSHOP CC SOFTWARE#
Software Training: Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 Section 1: Introduction
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