By watching this video, you will be able to understand the connection between all the selection features Photoshop offers, including Feather, Contract, Expand, Border, Smooth, Refine Edge, Quick Mask, Color Range, Transform Selection and many more.
10 Photoshop Selection Tips
Wondering about saved selections in Photoshop? Saving your selections can be useful if you need to come back to them at a later date. Saved selections in Photoshop are stored as Channels. They are essentially Pixel Masks not assigned to any layer. You can find these options under the Select menu.
This can be very useful when you need to create perspective distortions to shapes selected with the Marquee tools. This can be achieved by holding down Control while dragging one of the control points of the transform bounding box. You can also use Warp features to bend and reshape your selections with this feature.
This is a very handy feature for making changes to your selections. You need to click on the icon at the bottom of the toolbar to enter Quick Mask mode or press Q. You can use the same keyboard shortcut to exit this special selection editing mode.
Once in Quick Mask mode, you will see your selection normally and everything else outside your selection with a red overlay. This setting can be changed by double-clicking on the icon in the toolbar. In this mode, you should work with the Brush tool and the Gradient tool to make fast and precise changes to your selections. Using black as your foreground color will remove areas from your selection, while using white will increase the area of your selection. Try using custom brushes to achieve special selections.
First, let's talk about the magic selection tool in Photoshop. The Magic Wand is a classic Photoshop tool. It creates selections based on the similarity of neighbouring pixels. The magic selection tool Photoshop method can be achieved with two features from the Select menu. Similar will extend the selection by including similar coloured areas from around the whole image (not only adjacent pixels), and Grow will extend the selection only using adjacent pixels.
Now, let's see how to use the quick selection tool in Photoshop. The Quick Selection tool uses also the same sampling, but together with a very powerful brush method. With the Quick Selection tool, you can quickly sample several areas with a simple brush stroke, and you can customise the size of your brush to make precise selections.
The feather selection Photoshop tool will soften the edges of your selection. The pixel size of Feathering will define the size of the gradual softening around the edges of your selection. You can either assign a Feather to your selection tools (Marquee and Lasso tools) or add it to any selections created from the Select menu.
This is a very powerful set of tools to modify your selections. Here you can use advanced selection modifications like Smart Radius, Decontaminate Colors, and many more. This option is the best way to improve your selections of complicated subjects like hair or fur.
When learning how to use Modify in Photoshop, these are two popular options. They're under Select > Modify, and they do exactly what their name says. Contract will remove a set amount of pixels to the edges of your selection, and Expand will expand a selection in Photoshop by adding pixels.
This is another favourite Photoshop selection feature, which you can use to enhance a selection you've already created. You can find this feature in the Select menu. The way it works is similar to the Magic Wand, but in this case you have better control over the Tolerance, which is called Fuzziness in this case, and you also get better Preview options.
We covered various methods to learn how to make a selection in Photoshop and how to adjust a selection in Photoshop. Now you know how to invert selection in Photoshop, how to make a selection, how to move a selection in Photoshop, and more.
This plugin helps you when you need to cut a layer into separate layers, especially if you have lots of elements in there. It cuts any type of layer with just a click, using a variety of tools like guidelines, paths, or selections.
Some Photoshop desktop users on Windows were experiencing slow performance, crashing, or unexpected selections due to NVidia Windows Display drivers. We have made changes to improve the app performance for Windows users who were facing such issues. Additionally, we have introduced a preference to help improve selection stability.
So we are bringing you 10 quick tips that will hopefully speed up some of those tedious Photoshop tasks. All of these tips are image-related, as working with images is not necessarily the favorite thing for designers to spend a lot of time doing. These tips should help to speed up work on images whilst retaining quality.
There are obviously many, many more tips and tricks that help improve, enhance and speed up Photoshop workflow - unfortunately, finding them takes time! On the bright side, however, in many cases other people have spent that time and have been good enough to share their discoveries with us.
These shortcuts will activate different groups of tools, like "Lasso," "Brush," or "Spot Healing Brush." Within these tools, though, there are different functions. Under the "Magic Wand" tool group, for example, you have the option to execute a new selection or add and subtract from a current one.
From there, refine your selection by using the regular Selection tool in the side bar. Hold down Shift as you select to add to an existing selection. After you have selected an area of your image, tap the letter Q to get a red Quick Mask of your selection. Quick Mask helps you to clearly see what is selected and then make refinements from there.
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You should now see a dashed marquee line (known fondly as marching ants) around your selection. Choose CTRL+C (COMMAND+C on Mac) to copy the selection of the face. Alternatively, you can choose Edit > Copy from the dropdown menu at the top of the application window.
Color Range is particularly powerful because you can quickly create selections in your image based on color or tone. Go Select>Color Range and use the eyedropper to select something like the red in the car in my image and even hold down the Shift key while clicking to add more shades of red to the selected area and then use the Fuzziness slider to refine the selection a bit more before hitting OK to load the selection.
The Discover panel is loaded with tools and tips to help you work faster. It uses AI to deliver recommendations based on you and your work and includes one-click actions to speed you to results. This is a great new tool inside Photoshop where we will continue to add AI capabilities that enhance your experience with the product.
There are multiple beta filters to help you do very practical things in your photo adjustment and retouching workflows. Boost the resolution of smaller selections within portraits with Super Zoom or remove JPEG artifacts that result from JPEG compression. Depth-Aware haze simulates volumetric haze in your background to better highlight your subject.
Artificial intelligence makes the new experience context-aware and provides you with recommendations based on you and your work. These recommendations include tips and tutorials on how to get multi-step workflows done faster, and we have also packaged top workflows into automated one-click Quick Actions that help you remove and blur backgrounds, make a black and white background, or enhance an image.
Adobe Photoshop also offers a number of selection tools: Quick Mask, Rectangular marquee, Elliptical marquee, Lasso, Polygonal Lasso, Magnetic Lasso, Magic Wand. The most efficient way to make a selection in Adobe Photoshop is to use Quick Mask mode. Quick Mask mode
To switch from Standard mode to Quick Mask mode, press the button in the lower part of the Toolbox or use a hot key Q. Paint over the areas to be selected with a hard edge Brush (in Quick Mask mode the selected area is highlighted in semi-transparent red) Then switch back to Standard mode by pressing the button in the lower part of the Toolbox and invert the selection using the command Select -> Inverse. It is critical to invert the selection as in Quick Mask mode it is the unpainted area that falls into the selection. Note that if you set Selected Areas in the Quick Mask Options (opened by double clicking on the Quick Mask button), you do not need to invert the selection. Also, you can change the highlight color and its opacity here. Hints on the Quick Mask Options::Open the Options by double clicking on the Quick Mask button. if the "Masked Areas" option is active the areas non marked with red will be selected if the "Selected Areas" option is active the areas marked with red will be selected The Rectangular marquee and Elliptical marquee tools are hidden in the Toolbox under one and the same icon. The icon on the Toolbox displays the last tool used. To open the floating menu right-click on the arrow in the lower right corner of the displayed icon. Rectangular marquee
This tool selects rectangular and square areas. To select a rectangular area you should:Step 1. Activate the Rectangular marquee tool by clicking on the icon , or (if the Rectangular marquee was not the last tool applied) select it from the floating window. Step 2. Bring the mouse cursor to the point of the image where the corner of an imaginary rectangle should be, and press the left mouse button. Step 3. Keeping the left button pressed, move the cursor diagonally to the opposite corner and release the button. To select a square area of the image make a selection keeping the Shift key pressed. Take into account that if you already have a selected area the new selection will be added to the previous one. To avoid it you should press the Shift key only when you start selecting a new area. Elliptical marquee
This tool selects ellipses and circles. To select an elliptical area you should:Step 1. Select the Elliptical marquee tool from the Toolbox by clicking on the icon , or (if the Elliptical marquee was not the last tool applied) select it from the floating window. Step 2. Bring the mouse cursor to the point of the image where the corner of an imaginary rectangle with an inscribed ellipse should be, and press the left button. Step 3. Keeping the left button pressed, move the cursor diagonally to the opposite corner and release the button. To select a circular area of the image make a selection keeping the Shift key pressed. Take into account that if you already have a selected area the new selection will be added to the previous one. To avoid it you should press the Shift key only when you start selecting a new area. If you keep the Alt (Option in Mac) key pressed when selecting an elliptical or a rectangular area, the selection is generated from the center to borders, not from one corner to another. The Lasso, Polygonal Lasso, Magnetic Lasso tools are hidden in the Toolbox under one and the same icon. The icon on the Toolbox displays the last tool selected. To open the floating menu right-click on the arrow in the lower right corner of the displayed icon. Lasso
The tool allows creating freehand selections. To make a freehand selection you should: Step 1. Select the Lasso tool from the Toolbox by left-clicking on the icon , or (if Lasso was not the last tool applied) select it from the floating window. Step 2.Bring the mouse cursor to the object that must be selected and outline it keeping the left button pressed. Polygonal Lasso
The tool makes freehand selections, but its contour is made up of straight segments. To make a selection you should: Step 1.Select the Polygonal Lasso tool from the Toolbox by clicking on the icon , or (if Polygonal Lasso was not the last tool applied) select it from the floating window. Step 2.Bring the cursor to any point near the object to be outlined and press the left mouse button - it'll be the first point of the contour. Step 3.Move the cursor to the next point of the contour not far from the first one and left-click it again. The program will automatically draw a straight line between the two points. Step 4.Keep putting points in this way until the whole object is outlined and close the contour. Magnetic Lasso
This tool makes a freehand selection. When you use Magnetic Lasso you do not need to follow the contour of the object precisely. If the object stands out against the background the border of the selected area will be traced automatically as you move the cursor along the object. To select an area using Magnetic lasso you should: Step 1.Select the Magnetic Lasso tool from the Toolbox by clicking on the icon , or (if Magnetic Lasso was not the last tool applied) select it from the floating window. Step 2.Bring the mouse cursor to the border of the object that should be selected.Step 3.Press the left button and start dragging the cursor along the object. Pay attention to fastening points that appear as you outline the object and when you male a click. If a fastening point is irrelevant you can remove it by pressing the Delete key and return to the previous fastening point to continue outlining the object. Step 4.Close the contour, that is join the first fastening point with the last one by bringing the cursor to the first point or by making a double-click. Magic Wand
This tool selects a consistently colored area. You can set Tolerance in the Options palette of the Magic Wand tool. The higher is the value, the more colors will fall into the selected area. The Tolerance value ranges from 0 to 255. At Tolerance equal to 0 the selected area will be represented only by one color, at Tolerance equal to 255 - all colors of the image will be selected, that is the whole image. To select a consistently colored area, you should: Step 1. Select the Magic Wand tool in the Toolbox by clicking the icon .Step 2. Bring the cursor to the pixel of the image that must be included into the selection and left-click it. As a result an outline appears around the pixel. It includes colors of the image similar to the color of the selected pixel according to the specified Tolerance value. These selection tools are efficient due to the flexibility of their usage: you can add to, subtract from or intersect a selection. To add an area to the previous selection you should press the Shift key before you use a selection tool and, keeping it pressed, make a new selection. To subtract an area from the previous selection you should press the Alt (Option in Mac) key before you use a selection tool and, keeping it pressed, make a new selection. If you press Shift and Alt (Shift and Option in Mac) keys simultaneously you obtain an intersection of the old and new selections. Share with friends & get a discount! Subscribe to News ProductsPhoto ProcessingVideo ProcessingFrame PacksUseful InfoCompatibilityOnline StoreDiscountsSupportContact SupportUpgradeTutorial Photo Processing 2ff7e9595c
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