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Introducing Select > Subject

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Introducing Select > Subject

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- [Instructor] We're gonna start things off by going up to the select menu and choosing the subject command which will allow us in part to select this guy who's all up in his iDevices, and composite him against this interior background. And I should say that both of these photographs, the model and the background, come to us from the Dreamstime image library about which I will remind you you can learn more and get some great deals at dreamstime.com/deke.php. Alright, I'll press the backspace key, or the delete key on a Mac to get rid of that URL, and then I'll turn this guy back on. Notice that the model layer is currently selected and so now all you have to do to use the subject command is go up to the select menu and choose it. And I want you to notice that unlike color range from the previous chapter and focus area which we'll be seeing in this chapter, the subject command does not end in that dot dot, the ellipses, which tells us that rather than bringing up a dialogue box, as in…

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