Photoshop Selections: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

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Photoshop Selections: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques is an Intermediate level study on Photography, crafted by the creator, Richard Harrington. This study is an essential foundation for a person who needs to excel in his/her Photography skills. It gives you a strong understanding on Masking + Compositing, Photography, Photoshop, Masking + Compositing, Photography and Photoshop.

Take charge of Photoshop and hard-to-select objects like hair, fuzzy edges, and color ranges. This course teaches you how to make better, more targeted image adjustments with the selection tools in Adobe Photoshop CC. Rich Harrington shows how to make precise selections for masking, changing color and tone, or even storing transparency. Dive into the Select menu commands and the Marquee, Lasso, and Magic Wand tools, and then learn how to refine your selections with Expand and Contract, Smooth and Feather, Quick Mask, and other controls. Photoshop power users can discover advanced techniques involving the Color Range command and alpha channel selections. Finally, see how to leverage the smart image-analysis tools such as Content-Aware Fill and Face-Aware Liquify to make complex selections and adjustments.

Topics include:

• What are selections?
• Creating masks from selections
• Using the selection tools, including marquees and lassos
• Moving a selection
• Selecting with the Quick Selection tool
• Growing, smoothing, and feathering selections
• Transforming a selection
• Using the Refine Edge command
• Selecting a color or tonal range with Color Range
• Making a selection with the Pen tool
• Creating selections from channels
• Saving a selection as an alpha channel
• Using the Content-Aware tools for selections
• Using Face-Aware Liquify

Photoshop Selections: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques : Video Lessons

• Before watching this course1m 53s
• Using the exercise files1m 1s
• A selection makes everything better49s
• Using selections for color and tone adjustments7m
• Using selections to create masks7m 44s
• The Select and Mask workspace3m 16s
• Select All, Deselect, and Reselect7m 41s
• Tips, tricks, and techniques for selecting areas of an image in Photoshop6m 43s
• The Photoshop Marquee tools3m 12s
• The Photoshop selection lassos5m 1s
• Moving a Photoshop selection3m 17s
• Using the options bar for advanced selection control in Photoshop5m 24s
• The Photoshop Magic Wand tool3m 48s
• The Photoshop Magic Quick Selection tool2m 54s
• Using the options bar for advanced wand control in Photoshop4m 2s
• Saving tool presets2m 41s
• Using Expand and Contract in Photoshop4m 1s
• Grow, smooth, and feather a selection in Photoshop6m 52s
• Transforming a selection in Photoshop5m 7s
• The Inverse command in Photoshop3m
• Adding to and subtracting from a selection5m 43s
• Refining a selection with the Quick Mask command5m 30s
• Improving selections with the Select and Mask command6m 49s
• Advanced control with the Select and Mask command5m 49s
• Using the Color Range command to select a color6m 33s
• Using the Color Range command to select a tonal range6m 20s
• Using the Color Range command to select skin tones5m 31s
• Creating a selection based on focus area6m 2s
• Using the Select Subject command7m 32s
• Making a selection with the Pen tool4m 6s
• Third-party masking plugins7m 11s
• What are channels?5m 6s
• Creating a selection from a single channel4m 49s
• Saving a selection as an alpha channel3m 14s
• Refining channels with the Save Selection command3m 18s
• Creating a selection from two channels with the Calculations command9m 4s
• Saving channels with your output file2m 34s
• Making an initial selection for Content-Aware Fill2m 43s
• Refining the sample area for Content-Aware Fill3m 21s
• Controlling Content-Aware Fill output4m 33s
• Using selections and Content-Aware Patch3m 34s
• Using selections and Content-Aware Move3m 12s
• Adjusting the selection points for Face-Aware Liquify4m 10s
• Refining an image with Face-Aware Liquify4m 23s
• Next steps48s

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