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Making selections based on subject and color

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Making selections based on subject and color

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- [Instructor] Another new feature that can help make selections is found under the select menu. When we choose select, and then select subject, this is a feature that's actually been trained by machine learning and artificial intelligence to look for the primary subject in an image and select it. So by choosing this, we can see that it does a fairly decent job of selecting the primary subject, in this case the scarecrow, in our image. Let's go ahead and just desaturate the background. I'm going to add a hue saturation adjustment layer, but of course, since the foreground was actually selected, when I desaturate this we're going to desaturate the scarecrow. That's easy to fix. All I need to do is click on the mask icon, and then scroll down, and then invert that mask. Now let's zoom in. I'll use Command + 1 to zoom into 100%. Tap the Spacebar in order to temporarily access the hand tool so that I can reposition this.…

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