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Making soft-edged selections

Making soft-edged selections - Photoshop Tutorial

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Making soft-edged selections

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- [Instructor] Photoshop's select subject and select and mask features are essential when selecting soft edged objects like fur and hair. Select subject uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to try to identify the primary subject in the image and select and mask can help refine the selection to separate hard to select areas. In this image, I want to select the sheep to desaturate its fur. All right, to start, I'll choose the select menu and then subject and Photoshop will look at the entire image and try to select the primary subject, in this case, the sheep. I want to compare this selection with another, so I'll return to the select menu and choose to save this selection. I'm going to call this selection local and save it and we can see that it's been saved in our channels panel. If your channels panel isn't showing, you can go into the window menu and then show your channels. All right…

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