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Adding the primary figure - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop 2021 Essential Training: Photography
Adding the primary figure
- [Instructor] So now it's time to add our leading element, the star of the stage. In this case, it's going to be this tree layer. I'll go ahead and make it visible as well as targeted in the Layers panel. And now we need to select it. I could choose the Select menu and try to select Subject. And Photoshop does quite a good job selecting it, but there's still a lot of areas that I would need to correct. So I'm going to deselect that. And we could try selecting this using the Object Select or the Quick Selection tool, but both of these are going to also have problems because it just is a rather complex object. And both of those tools, Select Subject and the Object Select, they both have been trained using AI, or artificial intelligence, and I really doubt that the model has been trained using a lot of trees. So again, I will deselect this. And because it is a hard edge object, I would take the time to select this with…
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