![]() You will be able to select and cut out anything: faster and cleaner. Colin shows you exactly how in 18 lessons.Īll the images are included for you to follow along. Stop struggling with selections. Learn how to select and cut out anything from people, hair, trees, complex shapes and even transparency.ĭiscover how to get perfect edges, without halos and jaggies. ![]() You can get my free Layer Blending modes ebook here PHOTOSHOP CC SELECTION SECRETS NEW COURSE BY COLIN SMITH (Ive been posting some fun Instagram and Facebook Stories lately) PS Don’t forget to join our mailing list and follow me on Social Media> Browse our other tutorials and bookmark PSC so you don’t I make a new tutorial each week here at PhotoshopCAFE. You can touch it up by painting on the layer mask with black or white. Hold Down Alt/Option and click on the new Layer mask button. All the white areas will be selected.Ĭlick on RGB to turn the channels back on. Often you will use both dodge and burn for hair.Ĭmd/Ctrl+Click on the channel thumbnail to lead the selection. (The video shows this is action very well) Set it to highlights, and paint around any of the edges that need to be lightened. When you have finished with the dark edges switch to the Dodge tool Work your way around the edges, notice how to burn tool can darken the edges in a nice smooth way. This is where we will smoothen it to get a perfect cutout.Ĭhoose the burn tool and set the Range to shadows and the Exposure to 15% Ctrl/Cmd+Delete will fill with foreground color. Press Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+I to inverse the selectionįill the selection with White. You can use the magic wand Curves option to crisp colours up again after. (This varies a little from the video, because I wanted to show off the technique better in the video, so this step is optional)Ĭhoose Select>Modify>Expand 20-30 pixel depending on image resolution. I know I need to use the selection tool but often it distorts the shape or size. Alt/Option+Delete will fill with foreground color. This shrinks the selection to the inside of the image.įill the selection with black. This will make a copy of the channel for us to work on.Ĭhoose Select>Modify>Contract and enter 10-15 pixels (Blue Channel) Click on “Blue”ĭrag the Blue channel to the new channel icon at the bottom (the square with the plus sign in it) Go up to the File menu and choose Place Embedded. And because we want the image to appear in the same document as our shape, we’ll use Photoshop’s Place Embedded command. Next, we’ll place our image into the document. On earlier version of Photoshop make a selection around the subject using quick select, magic wand, or whatever you have available.Ĭhoose the channel with most contrast. Step 8: Place your image into the document. in CC2019 or newer (we are using Photoshop 2020 here) choose the Quick selection tool and click on select Subject. While these methods may work, they can have many drawbacks. It will work with all version of Photoshop. A lot of times, new or inexperienced designers using Photoshop might use the Lasso Tool, Eraser Tool or Magic Wand (as opposed to the Pen Tool) to cut an image out of its background. ![]() This type of cutout is sometimes called a channel pull, although many channel pulls just use levels and don’t include the powerful dodge and burn technique you will learn here. We will be using Channels and well as dodging and burning to create our mask. ![]()
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