This will create a dotted outline around your subject known as a selection. You can add to your selection by holding Shift and clicking on another area, and you can remove unwanted selections by holding Control and clicking on them. Drag the cursor to the right to increase the size of the selection and to the left to decrease it. With the tool selected, click and drag on your subject to create a selection. This method is perfect for when you have delicate areas you wish to extract, such as hair or areas that need a softer selection.Grab the Fuzzy Select Tool by clicking on the icon highlighted in the above image, or simply press U on your keyboard. From this window you can use the quick selection tool, refine edge tool, brush tool, lasso tool, and many adjustments to allow you to really refine that selection. The next method involves going to the menu “Select” and then choosing “Select & Mask”. This is a great method as it allows you to use the paint brush and and get in to areas you want to select, adjust your brush size and get those intricate details as well. Use black to paint areas you want to be excluded and white for area you want to be included. You will notice your image take on a red hue and now you can use your brush tool to paint areas into our out of your selection. The first way to do this, while your selection is active, is to go into Quick Mask mode by pressing the shortcut ‘Q’.
This is a perfect time to refine your selections with a mask. There are often little areas of pixels that you just can’t seem to include, or even really complex areas of color and value that make it hard to use the above tools with no further adjustments. Ok, let’s say you have a selection but there’s still a little bit of fine tuning needed. It works in the same manner when you want to cut a figure out of a relatively white background. This tool is great as you can paint what you want to mask out – for example in the image below I painted the dark blue area with the Quick Selection tool. You can change the size of the brush, and add and subtract areas of the selection. The quick selection tool works like a brush tool.
In the image below I simply used the Magic Wand tool to select the pink colors.
You will also notice icons at the top that allow you to Add, Subtract, and Intersect the selection.
It’s one of those that is often forgotten as there are newer selection tools that may seem more intuitive, however the Magic Wand tool has some features that allow you to adjust what you are selecting, such as tolerance, sample size, and the new Select and Mask feature. The Magic Wand tool is one of the oldest tools in Photoshop, and makes selections based on tone and color. If you have a design with large areas of solid color, or a design that has sharp distinctions between colors, the first two methods you might want to try are the Quick Selection and Magic Wand Tools.
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