From the course: Mastering Selections in Photoshop CC
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The case for not feathering - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Mastering Selections in Photoshop CC
The case for not feathering
- One of the options that's available for most of the selection tools in Photoshop and in fact, a command that you can use, for any selection in Photoshop is feathering. Feathering, conceptually, is something that the majority of the time, probably the vast majority of the time, we actually want to apply. If we're using the selection as the basis of a targeted adjustment, for example, we almost always want to apply a little bit of feathering to that selection. And yet, I never feather selections. Why would that be? I want the result of a feathered selection, but I don't actually feather my selections. The reason is, that I save that feathering for a little bit later in my work flow. Let me show you why I have that preference and how you can actually apply that feathering after the fact. First of all, you can see, here, with the lasso tool, there is a feather setting up on the options bar so I can specify how many pixels to feather a selection by as I'm creating that selection. I'm…
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