Making Selections in Adobe Photoshop 2020
Lesson 13 from: Adobe Photoshop: The Complete Guide BootcampBen Willmore
Making Selections in Adobe Photoshop 2020
Lesson 13 from: Adobe Photoshop: The Complete Guide BootcampBen Willmore
Lessons
Introduction To Adobe Photoshop
04:05 2Bridge vs. Lightroom
06:39 3Tour of Photoshop Interface
18:21 4Overview of Bridge Workspace
07:42 5Overview of Lightroom Workspace
11:21 6Lightroom Preferences - Saving Documents
08:19 7How To Use Camera Raw in Adobe Photoshop 2020
05:10 8Overview of Basic Adjustment Sliders
13:09Developing Raw Images
30:33 10Editing with the Effects and HLS Tabs
09:12 11How to Save Images
03:37 12Using the Transform Tool
04:48 13Making Selections in Adobe Photoshop 2020
06:03 14Selection Tools
05:55 15Combining Selection Tools
07:37 16Using Automated Selection Tools
17:34 17Quick Mask Mode
05:07 18Select Menu Essentials
21:28 19Using Layers in Adobe Photoshop 2020
13:00 20Align Active Layers
07:29 21Creating a New Layer
06:15 22Creating a Clipping Mask
03:02 23Using Effects on Layers
11:24 24Using Adjustment Layers
16:44 25Using the Shape Tool
04:39 26Create a Layer Mask Using the Selection Tool
04:39 27Masking Multiple Images Together
15:15 28Using Layer Masks to Remove People
10:50 29Using Layer Masks to Replace Sky
10:04 30Adding Texture to Images
09:11 31Layering to Create Realistic Depth
05:35 32Adjustment Layers in Adobe Photoshop 2020
05:29 33Optimizing Grayscale with Levels
10:59 34Adjusting Levels with a Histogram
03:37 35Understanding Curves
06:18 36Editing an Image Using Curves
18:41 37Editing with Shadows/Highlights Adjustment
07:19 38Dodge and Burn Using Quick Mask Mode
07:14 39Editing with Blending Modes
08:04 40Color Theory
05:59 41Curves for Color
16:52 42Hue and Saturation Adjustments
08:59 43Isolating Colors Using Hue/Saturation Adjustment
13:33 44Match Colors Using Numbers
16:59 45Adjusting Skin Tones
05:25 46Retouching Essentials In Adobe Camera Raw
10:52 47Retouching with the Spot Healing Brush
07:53 48Retouching with the Clone Stamp
06:51 49Retouching with the Healing Brush
04:34 50Retouching Using Multiple Retouching Tools
13:07 51Extending an Edge with Content Aware
03:42 52Clone Between Documents
13:19 53Crop Tool
10:07 54Frame Tool
02:59 55Eye Dropper and Color Sampler Tools
08:14 56Paint Brush Tools
13:33 57History Brush Tool
06:27 58Eraser and Gradient Tools
03:06 59Brush Flow and Opacity Settings
04:17 60Blur and Shape Tools
11:06 61Dissolve Mode
09:24 62Multiply Mode
15:29 63Screen Mode
14:08 64Hard Light Mode
14:54 65Hue, Saturation, and Color Modes
11:31 66Smart Filters
11:32 67High Pass Filter
13:40 68Blur Filter
05:59 69Filter Gallery
07:42 70Adaptive Wide Angle Filter
04:43 71Combing Filters and Features
04:45 72Select and Mask
20:04 73Manually Select and Mask
08:08 74Creating a Clean Background
21:19 75Changing the Background
13:34 76Smart Object Overview
08:37 77Nested Smart Objects
09:55 78Scale and Warp Smart Objects
09:08 79Replace Contents
06:55 80Raw Smart Objects
10:20 81Multiple Instances of a Smart Object
12:59 82Creating a Mockup Using Smart Objects
05:42 83Panoramas
13:15 84HDR
11:20 85Focus Stacking
04:02 86Time-lapse
11:18 87Light Painting Composite
08:05 88Remove Moire Patterns
06:11 89Remove Similar Objects At Once
09:52 90Remove Objects Across an Entire Image
05:46 91Replace a Repeating Pattern
06:50 92Clone from Multiple Areas Using the Clone Source Panel
10:27 93Remove an Object with a Complex Background
07:49 94Frequency Separation to Remove Staining and Blemishes
12:27 95Warping
11:03 96Liquify
14:02 97Puppet Warp
12:52 98Displacement Map
10:36 99Polar Coordinates
07:19 100Organize Your Layers
11:02 101Layer Styles: Bevel and Emboss
02:59 102Layer Style: Knockout Deep
12:34 103Blending Options: Blend if
13:18 104Blending Options: Colorize Black and White Image
06:27 105Layer Comps
08:30 106Black-Only Shadows
06:07 107Create a Content Aware Fill Action
08:46 108Create a Desaturate Edges Action
07:42 109Create an Antique Color Action
13:52 110Create a Contour Map Action
10:20 111Faux Sunset Action
07:20 112Photo Credit Action
05:54 113Create Sharable Actions
07:31 114Common Troubleshooting Issues Part 1
10:23 115Common Troubleshooting Issues Part 2
07:57 116Image Compatibility with Lightroom
03:29 117Scratch Disk Is Full
06:02 118Preview Thumbnail
02:10Lesson Info
Making Selections in Adobe Photoshop 2020
we're gonna head into selection essentials. Selections will allow you to isolate part of your picture, so whatever it is you're doing will not affect the whole image. And so they're kind of essential to really be ineffective in federal shop. There's a variety of tools that could be used for creating them. There's a lot of new additions in the newer versions of federal Shop, so let's jump in and take a look at what is possible. Now this image already has a selection within it, just so I can show you what it looks like in case you're new to photo shop. If I look at this image, you'll see that a particular area has its edge highlighted, and that's known as a selection. If you would actually look close at it, you'd see that this edge is actually kind of moving along clockwise, and it almost looks like a little bitty ants walking around. And therefore a lot of people refer to that as the marching ants. But any time you hear somebody say that they mean that edge, which indicates there is an ...
area selected, I'll show you the tool used to create them. But before we do, Let's look at why do I need a selection? What's it going to do for me? Well, whenever you have a selection active, then if you go to the image menu and you choose any one of these adjustments, let's say in this case, I chose the one called black and white. Well, usually it would affect your entire picture unless you had a selection with that selection active. When I choose black and white, it's only the area that was selected that is affected, and therefore, whatever I do here is only going to effect the selected area. A click cancel that is also true. If I were to go the filter menu in, apply a filter. In this case, I'm gonna use Blurring Ghazi and blur. It's the adjustable blur filter, and if I bring up the setting high enough so it becomes obvious, you'll see that it's on Lee blurring the area that was selected. Also, if you were to grab a painting tool and decide you wanted to paint across your image well, that paint would not apply outside of that selection, and it's only when you extend into the area that selected that you would see the change happening, and so selections are essential any time we want to work on. Only a small portion of the picture in selections also are related to other features and Futter Shop. If you ever heard here of somebody saying they need to mask something, they really mean they need to select something. Selections in masks go together. A mask is just when you would see this selection is something other than marching ants. Instead, you would see it as a black and white image where the area that is white would be selected in the area that is black would indicate what's not selected. If you want to see an example of that, I'll take the selection that's on my screen right now. I'll go to the select menu, and there's a choice here called Save Selection, and I'm saving this when I dio I can't type. So, uh, it puts it somewhere in the place that happens to put it is in a panel called the Channels panel. But here it is. Do you see that shape Well, Any time you see something, it looks like this where an area that's white indicates where something was selected in an area that's black indicates something that's not that could be described as a mask. It's just to say I isolated in an area somehow in photo shop, and it doesn't look like the marching ants. Instead, it looks like a black and white representation that's usually the same size as the document you're working on, and that's a mask. But the two are synonymous where you can have a mask attached to something like an adjustment. And then it's the equivalent to having a selection attached to something. So it limits where ever that thing can affect the image. But master the subject of a different class, I'll have a class on advanced masking that really means advanced selections. All right, let's take a look at the tools we use for making selections. I'm gonna get rid of this selection, and I can do that by going to the select menu. In choosing de select when you don't have a selection active on your screen, it's the same thing is having everything selected when you don't have a selection. It means I didn't try to isolate an area, and therefore I'm gonna affect everything that means any adjustments that I make, like that one I used called black and white will affect the entire picture. And if I were to do a filter like the blurring that I attempted earlier again, it's going to affect everything. And you could just as easily have gone to the select menu. There's a trois called all and that would make it so. Your entire image is selected and you'd see the marching ants all the way out on the edge of the picture where if I zoom out so you can see the entire picture, you see the marching ants out there so select all and nothing selected or, in general, the same concept. It means I'm working on everything. Uh, I'm gonna choose de select to get rid of that. There is an occasion when you do need to choose, select all one of those is if I go to the edit menu until I don't want to copy something. Well, when you don't have a selection, it means it doesn't know how much of the image you'd like to copy which portion of the image. And so if you wanted to copy the entire thing, you'd have to select all first, then it would let you copy. So but in general, select all and de select means work on the whole thing. I'm gonna use de select a lot. And whenever I do, I use the keyboard shortcut, its command D on a Mac, control D and windows for de Select. And I'll use that without thinking. Like right now. I wanted to get rid of the selection, and I almost typed it without mentioning.
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