From the course: Mastering Selections in Photoshop CC
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Saving and loading selections - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Mastering Selections in Photoshop CC
Saving and loading selections
- Some selections will be rather quick and easy to create and others might take a bit of effort, but regardless, if a selection took any real amount of time to create it might be worthwhile to save that selection, so that it can be readily put to use again in the future. Now, to be fair, in many cases the way we put selections to use actually causes them to be saved in some form. For example, if we use a selection as the basis of a targeted adjustment, using an adjustment layer for that purpose, then we're going to have a layer mask associated with our adjustment layer and that essentially is a saved selection in one form. But Photoshop also includes specific commands to save a selection and then to load that selection after it's been saved. Let's take a look at those options. I'll create in this case just a quick and basic selection of the sky, the Quick Selection Tool happens to make easy work of that. But the point is that I now have a selection and I might want to save it, so that…
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