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

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,500 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Edge Detection and Smart Radius

Edge Detection and Smart Radius - Photoshop Tutorial

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

Start my 1-month free trial

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…

Contents