From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Advanced
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Cleaning up with the Wand and Brush tools - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Advanced
Cleaning up with the Wand and Brush tools
- [Instructor] All right, our initial color range mask is pretty good, but it's by no means perfect. And so for example, if I were to press the Control + Space Bar keys, that's Command + Space Bar on a Mac, and zoom into this region here, you can see that we have some blue haloing along the top of the plane. We also have some choppy, jagged transitions. This point here isn't rendered properly, and if I were to scroll over to these windows at the front of the plane, you might notice that you can see the sky and clouds right through 'em, thereby implying that the plane has no roof. Which is why I'm going to show you a few ways to clean up the layer mask in this very movie. Now, we're going to be taking a bigger look at layer masks in the next chapter, so consider this an early preview. The first thing is to press Control + 0, or Command + 0 on a Mac, to zoom out from the image. And then, to view the layer mask independently of the image you want to press the Alt key, or the Option key…
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The best in automated selections1m 23s
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Introducing the Color Range command6m
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Customizing a Color Range selection4m 38s
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Localized Color Clusters and Detect Faces6m 57s
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Selecting a real-world photographic object4m 40s
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Cleaning up with the Wand and Brush tools9m 51s
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Refining your mask to absolute perfection12m 49s
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Shading the airplane to match the sky7m 15s
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Infusing the airplane with sky colors6m 20s
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Adding a custom Motion Blur effect4m 27s
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Adding a rocket plume4m 32s
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Introducing the Focus Area command4m 31s
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Using the Focus Area tool4m 50s
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Cleaning up a jagged Focus Area mask9m 42s
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Finessing hair and other details7m 25s
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