From the course: Motion Control 3D: Bringing Photos to Life in Three Dimensions with After Effects and Photoshop CC (2019)
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The Select and Mask command
From the course: Motion Control 3D: Bringing Photos to Life in Three Dimensions with After Effects and Photoshop CC (2019)
The Select and Mask command
Once you have a selection that looks pretty good, Photoshop has a built-in tool to make a better selection. It's the Refine Edge command, or the Select and Mask command depending upon your version of Photoshop. I'll click on the Select menu, and you'll see Select and Mask. The shortcut is Command + Option + R, which is leftover from when the command was called Refine Edge. So depending upon your version of Photoshop, you might see it either way. When you choose this, it will attempt to show you the selection. You'll notice from the View menu here, we could choose to view this in different ways: as an overlay, over black or white to see things, as just the mask itself, or, over the transparency of the layer. I find, for example, that viewing the mask itself makes it easy to see challenging areas. For example right here, I'm going to paint a little bit. And you see it updates, or hold down the Shift key to add, or…
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