From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Advanced
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Edge Detection and Smart Radius - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Advanced
Edge Detection and Smart Radius
- In this movie, I'll demonstrate a more practical application of the Select and Mask command and also introduce you to its powerful automated edge detection functions. Lets start things off by creating a better selection in the first place, one that doesn't have a problem with this guy's shoulders, by starting off with a better selection tool in the form of color range. And so I'll go to the Select menu and choose the Color Range command. And then I'll go ahead and click somewhere in the background to sample a base color and then I'll shift drag all over the background, like so. Alright now to get a sense for how the space selection really looks, I'll switch the Selection Preview to Grayscale, at which point you can see that we're selecting too much inside the hair and the face. So I'll go ahead and take the fuzziness value down to something like 20. And that still selects too much. And so I'm going to try something here, I'm going to click down near his shoulders in order to start…
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Compositing like a pro2m 2s
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Static selection vs. dynamic layer mask6m 35s
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Perfecting mask edges with the Smudge tool4m 46s
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White reveals, black conceals6m 43s
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Real-world layer masking7m 21s
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Combining multiple passes of Color Range6m 38s
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Painting away gaps in a layer mask11m 55s
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Making your mask the best it can be11m 32s
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Feather and Density = even better hair8m 12s
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Introducing the Select and Mask command5m 19s
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The Global Refinements settings4m 18s
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Edge Detection and Smart Radius6m 54s
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Refine Edge Brush and Decontaminated Colors5m
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Turning day into night with Camera Raw2m 46s
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Blending hair into a nighttime sky8m 32s
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Bringing back Refine Mask5m 24s
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