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Cleaning up a jagged Focus Area mask

Cleaning up a jagged Focus Area mask - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Advanced

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Cleaning up a jagged Focus Area mask

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- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to clean up a jagged Focus Area mask, and we'll be doing so inside the Select and Mask workspace. Now, this is a very powerful feature about which we'll learn more in the next chapter, but for now, assuming that you're working along with me, just go ahead and click on the Select and Mask button here in the lower left corner of the Focus Area dialog box, which is going to switch you to a different workspace that includes a handful of tools, over here in the left hand tool box, as well as the big Properties panel on the right side of the screen. Alright, I'm going to zoom in on this woman's neck, and I do want my view to be set to On White, as it appears right now. But I want to crank to opacity value from 50% all the way to 100% so that the white background is entirely opaque. Now notice this very jagged edge along the model's neck. To reconcile that, I'm going to click inside this smooth value here inside the Global Refinements, and I'm…

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