From the course: Mastering Selections in Photoshop CC
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Narrowing a color range selection - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Mastering Selections in Photoshop CC
Narrowing a color range selection
- The color range command can be useful all by itself, for creating a selection based on colors in a photo. But there's an additional feature of the color range command that enables us to focus that selection to a specific area of the image as well. Let's take a look at an example to illustrate what I'm talking about. We have a series of statues here with these red aprons. And so I could easily create a color range selection for all of those red areas. But what if I just want to select that one apron up at the top-left? Maybe, for example, I want to convert this image to black and white, except for that one red apron. Well, I can do that quite easily, as it turns out, with the color range selection tool. I'll go to the select menu and choose color range, so that I can bring up the color range dialog. I'll switch my selection preview to none, so that I can see the full image. And then I'm going to start off with the regular eyedropper tool, clicking in the actual area that I want to…
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