Use the Refine Edge Brush to go over any hair and edges.Check on the black and white mask (K key) to make sure you haven’t left any bits out.Find the perfect balance, so you can see the areas that are yet to be selected. If you move the opacity slider, you can choose a balance between the original image and the current selection.Choose the Onionskin mode (all new) and begin to paint on your subject (O key).Either start with a selection, or choose a selection tool and choose Select and Mask from the options bar.
You will notice, that it looks similar to refine edge, but it’s much better. You can begin with the Quick Select brush, like you always have, or, you can start in Select and Mask, by choosing a selection tool and clicking Select and Mask from the tool options bar. This tool allows you to quickly make selections based on similar colors and textures as well as detecting the edges of objects. Watch this video and then read a bit more about it.Īdobe has been hard at work with the Select and Mask space. The new Select and Mask space provides dramatically better results than refine edge. However, if you are on Photoshop CC, as of today, it’s a new day. If you are on CS6 or earlier versions, this is still your best choice. Up until now, the quick select brush and refine edge have been the tools of choice for most of the work. One of the most popular tasks in photoshop is removing something from its background, extracting, masking, floating, whatever you choose to call it. Note: If you are using Photoshop CS6 or earlier use this tutorial
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How to Use Select and Mask to extract something from its background in Photoshop CC 2015.5