Photoshop offers a variety of ways to do more with your selections.
It seems to mirror the possibilities and needs of users and indeed it does.
Feedback and suggestions, new possibilities appearing from new applications contribute to the core growth of this very popular software.
Often problems becomes solutions such as having a difficult selection challenge becomes quite easy when you simply choose its inverse.
As you learn more about these options, new possibilities will appear alongside.
One of the simplest selection options that essentially provides instant gratification is the 'select inverse' option chosen from the top level 'Select' menu.
A classic application for this might be when you want to isolate a landscape from the sky.
The landscape has varied detail and variation of color.
It would be difficult to use any of the selection tools to make this selection accurately.
The sky, however, is easy to capture.
It is very similar in color and range, homogeneous in texture, quite easy to choose.
The simple trick here is: highlight your sky then choose 'Select->Inverse' and Photoshop reverses your selection choosing everything that is not part of the sky.
This is very easy and you will be successful on your first try.
Many situations such as photographs with people offer a similar challenge/solution.
It might be difficult to capture the exact outline of the person you want to extract but quite to select the background.
Again, in this case, select the background, then choose 'Select->Inverse' to choose everything but the background.
As you experiment with the inverse selection tool, of course you can adjust your selection with tolerance and whether it should be contiguous.
The anti-alias option is turned on by default with your selection.
Anti-aliasing is a method of partially selecting pixels to ease or smooth your selection.
Think of a pixel representation like rows and columns, at a fine resolution level.
As your selection will typically choose shapes with curvature, the pixels on the edge of your selection will create a jagged edge.
Using anti-aliasing will help smooth this jagged edge.
Anti-aliasing allows Photoshop to partially choose pixels, creating a grayscale border providing a much smoother selection area and selection object.
As you experiment with selections it is always helpful to remember you can 'unselect' your selection with the shortcut key 'Ctrl D'.
You can 'test' your selection by choosing the move arrow at the top of your sidebar and moving the contents of your selection as a quick 'visual' showing what your your selection really does include.
It seems to mirror the possibilities and needs of users and indeed it does.
Feedback and suggestions, new possibilities appearing from new applications contribute to the core growth of this very popular software.
Often problems becomes solutions such as having a difficult selection challenge becomes quite easy when you simply choose its inverse.
As you learn more about these options, new possibilities will appear alongside.
One of the simplest selection options that essentially provides instant gratification is the 'select inverse' option chosen from the top level 'Select' menu.
A classic application for this might be when you want to isolate a landscape from the sky.
The landscape has varied detail and variation of color.
It would be difficult to use any of the selection tools to make this selection accurately.
The sky, however, is easy to capture.
It is very similar in color and range, homogeneous in texture, quite easy to choose.
The simple trick here is: highlight your sky then choose 'Select->Inverse' and Photoshop reverses your selection choosing everything that is not part of the sky.
This is very easy and you will be successful on your first try.
Many situations such as photographs with people offer a similar challenge/solution.
It might be difficult to capture the exact outline of the person you want to extract but quite to select the background.
Again, in this case, select the background, then choose 'Select->Inverse' to choose everything but the background.
As you experiment with the inverse selection tool, of course you can adjust your selection with tolerance and whether it should be contiguous.
The anti-alias option is turned on by default with your selection.
Anti-aliasing is a method of partially selecting pixels to ease or smooth your selection.
Think of a pixel representation like rows and columns, at a fine resolution level.
As your selection will typically choose shapes with curvature, the pixels on the edge of your selection will create a jagged edge.
Using anti-aliasing will help smooth this jagged edge.
Anti-aliasing allows Photoshop to partially choose pixels, creating a grayscale border providing a much smoother selection area and selection object.
As you experiment with selections it is always helpful to remember you can 'unselect' your selection with the shortcut key 'Ctrl D'.
You can 'test' your selection by choosing the move arrow at the top of your sidebar and moving the contents of your selection as a quick 'visual' showing what your your selection really does include.
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