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The Quick Selection tool - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
The Quick Selection tool
In this exercise, I'll show you how to both use and control the behavior of the Quick Selection tool, and then in the next exercise we'll see a potential use for it. I've saved my progress as Matching frog eyes.psd, and you get to the Quick Selection tool by clicking and holding on the tool below the Lasso tool, which may in your case either be the Quick Selection tool or the Magic Wand, which is why the tools have a keyboard shortcut of W. After all, the Wand is an older tool, it got its keyboard shortcut first, and then Quick Selection was added later. I hasten to add here that the tools are utterly and completely unrelated to each other, they work in remarkably different ways, and they have different purposes as well. Now, let's say I want use the Quick Selection tool to select this forward foot down here. So I'll go ahead and Zoom in on it. And you use the tool by brushing in a selection, and notice as you brush, Photoshop goes ahead and automatically grows the selection to what…
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The marquee tools6m 31s
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The single-pixel tools (plus tool tricks)6m 48s
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Turning a destructive edit into a layer5m 34s
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Making shapes of specific sizes7m 7s
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The lasso tools5m 49s
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Working with the Magnetic Lasso tool7m 19s
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The Quick Selection tool8m 13s
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Combining Quick Selection and Smudge4m 52s
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The Magic Wand and the Tolerance value6m 55s
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Contiguous and Anti-aliased selections6m 58s
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Making a good selection with the Magic Wand6m 34s
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Selecting and replacing a background6m 55s
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Resolving edges with layer effects7m 52s
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Adding lines of brilliant gold type7m 28s
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The seven selection soldiers52s
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