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A selection-based adjustment - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Targeted Adjustments in Photoshop CC
A selection-based adjustment
- More often than not, I find that when I want to apply a targeted adjustment to a specific area of an image in Photoshop that the easiest approach, or at least the most effective approach, is to create a selection that I will then use as the basis of the layer mask for my targeted adjustment. Let's take a look at this simple example just to illustrate that concept, the basic work flow for applying a targeted adjustment based on a selection. In this case, we'll assume that I want to apply an adjustment to the rocky area here. In other words, I do not want the adjustment to affect the sky. I'd like to enhance contrast for the foreground, for example, without altering the sky. And that means that I need my selection to be a selection of the rocky area, not of the sky. And so, for example, I might choose the quick selection tool, and then I could click and drag, painting throughout the rocky area, building up a selection as I go. And in the case of the quick selection tool, it often does…
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Targeted adjustment ingredients2m 5s
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Painting a targeted adjustment6m 22s
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Shades of gray on a mask5m 58s
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A selection-based adjustment2m 58s
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Inverting a mask3m 52s
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The best approach for feathering4m 27s
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Creating a gradient mask6m 12s
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Duplicating a mask6m 4s
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Multiple adjustments in one area5m 39s
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Using multiple adjustment masks6m 50s
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