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1 section • 6 lectures • 32m total length

01 Intro to Making Selections in Photoshop1:58
This movie is a quick overview of what you will learn in this course.
02 Eliptical Marquee7:59
Making selections with the eliptical marquee. In this movie we focus on making a basic selection with the mouse and using the keyboard to help modify our selection. Start here, the keyboard additions are a crucial part of making selections in Photoshop and most of them apply to all selections. A quick use of content aware fill is also included.
03 Rectangular Marquee6:14
Making selections with the rectangular marquee tool. Resizing objects, moving objects, rearranging layers. Making a selection and using it again and again.
04 Lasso Tools7:07
This movie covers how to use the lasso tool, polygonal lasso and magnetic lasso tools.
05 Magic Wand8:06
Getting the most out of the magic wand tool. This tool is best for removing backgrounds of solid color.
06 Quick Selection8:45
An overview of the quick selection tool and how to use it. It's the newest selection tool for Photoshop and my personal favorite. it takes some finesse, watch and see!

Description

This course is for beginner through advance. We start with the very basics of making selections with the selection tools. We create more complex selections with quick mask mode and channels. We cover refine selection and refine mask (cs4 and above). We explore masks, layer masks, clipping masks, alpha channels. Mastering selections and masking allows for non-destructive editing of your images. Never use the eraser tool to obliterate pixels!

Tools Covered:

Eliptical and Rectangular Marquees
Lasso, polygonal lasso, magnetic lasso
Quick Selection
Magic Wand

Techniques Covered

Quick Mask
Layer Masks
Clipping Masks
Alpha Channels

This class was created in Photoshop CS 5 but can be applied to any version of Photoshop, including Photoshop Elements.

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