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let's say you took a pencil and you drew

a closed shape on a piece of paper now

what can you do with it you can fill it

up with a color you can outline on it

you can cut it out or even burn it with

chemicals you can do whatever you want

there are Limitless possibilities now in

all of these possibilities there's a

common theme right here what is the

common theme the common theme is we are

targeting the same area that we drew

similarly in Photoshop a selection is

simply an area that we are targeting

that's it there are so many ways to

create a selection just to share a demo

with you let us choose the quick

selection tool it is in this group The

Magic One the quick selection and the

object selection anytime you want to

open a tool group just click and hold

and the group will open with more tools

inside of it so let us choose the quick

selection tool how it works is that it

tries to find edges we're going to cover

it in detail later don't worry about it

right now just like the brush with the

bracket Keys you can make it bigger or

smaller and let's target the sweater or

whatever she's wearing inside I'm not

too good with apparel now you can add to

the selection by just painting over

certain areas and you can subtract from

selections by just holding the ALT key

or the option key and paint on the areas

where you don't want the selection to be

now the selection is not very proper you

can take your time to improve it but

once the selection is active that is the

area we would be targeting whatever you

do that will be the area that is going

to be targeted whether you take the

brush and try to paint over it let us

choose a color

it will only fill in in that area or

even if you create an adjustment layer

so let us click on the adjustment layer

icon and then choose solid color and

let's go for something like a bright

yellow there you go that is the only

area that is being targeted now we did

learn it in the layer mask lesson that

is whenever you have an active selection

and you create any adjustment layer that

adjustment layer comes with a mask of

that active selection all right now of

course this is not looking realistic but

take notice her outfit is white now

whatever you want to paint onto white it

will only darken it because nothing can

get brighter than white so what is the

blend mode that darkens multiplier

darkens smoothly that is multiply so

change the blend mode from normal to

multiply and just as soon as you do that

have a look at her outfit pretty good

isn't it now of course you can go in

zoom in and improve the mask certain

areas are not proper you know already

how to do it select the mask take the

brush and paint with white where you

want the adjustment to show up there you

go so all in all what is a selection a

selection is simply an area that we are

targeting now before we move forward do

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video now that we know what selections

are the next obvious question that comes

up is

how do we make a selection now there are

so many ways to make a selection and the

list is just about endless let's take a

look at a few fundamental ones number

one you can make a selection with the

selection tools and these tools can be

the lasso tool for example I can just

draw to make a selection the polygonal

lasso tool the magnetic lasso to the

rectangular Marquee to there you have it

a selection the elliptical Marquee two

there is a selection or you can also use

the magic wand tool the quick selection

tool that we just did or the object

selection tool with the object selection

tool just make a rough selection of the

thing you want to select and there you

go you have a selection so that's number

one and very obvious number two is pen

two now this is a little more advanced

and we will cover it in future lessons

just to show you a quick Glimpse this is

the pen two and we can just use the pen

tool to create smooth Vector lines like

this now you can turn it into a

selection let me quickly

do a path around the eye now once we do

it any path you make and these are

vector paths will be inside of the parts

tab if you cannot see it go to window

and then go to parts right here paths

Parts I don't know how to pronounce it

so if you click on work path you'll find

it right here hold the control or

command click on the thumbnail to turn

that into a selection it is the best

tool to get absolute accurate selections

but the downside is it also takes some

time but if you're working commercially

you're going to be using this a lot we

will cover it in future lessons however

if you're running out of patience you

can watch this master class on pen tool

that I had made about five years ago I

look very different in that video number

three is color yes you can make a

selection based on color you can save

Photoshop select the blues and it will

make a selection of the Blues number

four is Select and mask which is a whole

different dialog box for making fine

selections number five Adobe Sensei and

these are adobe's AI tools to make a

selection for example select subject or

select Sky it makes a selection of the

sky number six actually number six and

Beyond you can use the brush too you can

use channels there are so many more ways

to make a selection however some of

these are Advanced Techniques which

we'll cover in the future like the pen

tool or channels for right now let us

focus on the fundamental ones and let's

have a lot of fun let's start with the

selection tools and the very first

obvious one is the lasso tool right here

now the last two tool is pretty

straightforward all you have to do is to

draw to make a selection and there you

have it now before we do anything let's

make a copy of the background layer now

if with the selection active you press

Ctrl or command J this new layer will

have just the selection area so first

make a copy then make changes if you

have made the selection already and you

want to just simply duplicate the layer

just drag it and drop it to the plus

icon that way that Fiasco will not

happen now let's simply fill it up by

going to edit content aware fill I'm

going to keep everything thing to

defaults and we want to Output to

current layer to keep it clean for now

hit OK and that area is filled now

whenever you're done with the selection

to make the selection go away we press

Ctrl or command D D4 deselect Ctrl or

command D deselects now there's one more

thing you should know about that is

feather you can add that later we're

gonna cover it later but if you set a

feather to about 10 pixels the selection

would be 10 pixels blurred so right now

if I make a selection like this and if I

try to fill it up with the color for

example let's set the foreground color

to this dark green right here all right

hit okay and if I want to fill a

selection all we have to do is to press

alt backspace or option delete now when

I fill have a look at the filling let's

press Ctrl or command D it is smooth

like this it has feather in it okay if

we didn't have feather let's go back to

how was

if we set the feather to zero and now if

we make a selection and now if we fill

it have a look there is no smoothness

around the edge so that's what

Feathering does you can also add it

later and we'll cover it later now

there's a very minor feature but super

important to watch out for and that is

anti-alias and to understand it better

let us use the elliptical Marquee tool

by the way you'll find anti-alias all

throughout Photoshop so right now with

the anti-aliasing turned on let us draw

an ellipse and by the way you can hold

the shift key to maintain proportion and

draw a circle if you don't hold the

shift key

you create an oval all right let us draw

this and fill it up to fill up any

selection don't forget alt backspace

option delete now let's turn off

anti-aliasing and draw another one right

next to it by the way as you're drawing

you can hold this space bar to move it

around all right let's draw like this

and fill it up so on the right hand side

we have anti-aliasing what it does is

that it introduces transparent pixels to

make the edges smoother on the other

hand with anti-aliasing turned off have

a look at the edge right here it's

either filling the pixel or not filling

the pixel resulting into a hard Edge now

you have to decide what you want to go

for I usually keep anti-aliasing turned

on for the most part and now we have the

polygonal lasso too it simply draws

straight lines you click click click

click

there you go now once you reach the

starting point and once it forms a

closed loop it will show an icon next to

it it will show a circle icon next to it

which means that now the loop is closing

if you click the loop will be closed

another thing is if you draw a selection

and if you draw till right here and from

here you want to close the loop just

double click it will close the loop from

there now we are humans we make mistakes

so sometimes as you're making the

selection you may create a point in the

wrong place like this so how do you go

back yes you can go back by pressing

backspace that point goes away so you

made a mistake you want to go back press

backspace that is gone and now you can

redo it now there's a reason that we are

learning the lasso tool and the

polygonal lasso tool together it is

because both of them are related and you

can switch between both of them have a

look at this so right now if you select

the lasso2 and if you start drawing all

right if you hold the ALT key and you

release the mouse now it is a polygonal

lasso tool right if you hold in the

mouse and then you release the ALT key

again now this is the regular lasso tool

pretty fantastic now of course you can

fill it up by going to edit content

aware fill I'm going to keep it the way

it is hit okay and there you go where

it's covered now these tools are not

just for making selections but also

improving them so let's say you choose

the rectangular Marquee tool and made a

selection around this one

now you noticed that this area needs to

be selected extra right so you go back

to the lasso tool you can hold the shift

key to turn it into lasso tool plus and

now if you make a selection it will be

added to the selection there you go

there you go if you feel like you have

added

too much like this you can hold the ALT

key or the option key it turns it into a

lasso minus same with the polygonal if

you choose the polygonal lasso tool you

hold the ALT key or the option key it's

polygonal minus if you hold the shift

key it's that tool plus so if you want

to subtract hold the ALT key if you want

to add hold the shift key so let's

subtract it by holding the ALT key and

then simply

subtracted as simple as that now

whatever shortcuts we learned like Shift

4 plus alt or option for minus it's all

right here at the Top If you don't want

to use keyboard shortcuts but why

wouldn't you but you should know that

there are buttons right here so if I

made a selection of this area and we

want to add to it you can click on this

button to add to it

and then you have this button right here

to subtract from it and this is the

regular one you can hold the shift or

the alt to add or subtract and this is

the intersection one interesting so if

you select that and make a selection

only the intersecting area will be

selected now let's talk about the quick

selection tool as the name suggests it

allows you to make quick selections if

you are using the lasso tool to select

this teapot it will take you ages trying

to precisely match up with the edges the

way quick selection works is that it

tries to find the edges of the object so

let us choose the quick selection tool

it will be inside of this group the

object selection the quick selection and

the magic wand let's go with the quick

selection tool and let's try to select

all of these objects all you have to do

is to just paint over it that's all it

tries to find the edges and it

automatically does the selection for you

so let's select this area as well now

sometimes actually more times than I

want to it will select a little a little

bit of the extras so to subtract the

extras you would hold the ALT key or the

option key and paint on the areas where

it's not supposed to be

and then if it subtracts too much you

can just paint back in areas where it is

supposed to be now there's going to be

times when it is not very accurate and

for those times there are other tools

like the lasso tool you can choose that

and say all right this is not a part of

it

and subtract that let's select this

object as well

this is okay it's not perfect but it's

okay now there are a couple of options

at the top you can try by default know

that the quick selection tool is

selected to Quick selection tool plus

and that is why whenever you make a

selection it keeps on adding to it you

can also choose minus from the button

right here to subtract an area like this

plus is already selected by default and

this is the regular one with the regular

one if you try to make any other

selection the previous selection will be

gone because it's making a selection not

adding to it now if you want a little

more enhanced selection you can check

enhance Edge but it doesn't always work

in our favor so you can experiment by

checking it on or off it's up to you

this is important and that is sample all

layers right now I deselected it if that

is checked off and there's a new layer

and you try to make a selection right

here

it won't do it properly because this

layer is empty no matter how much you

try it won't be able to select the

teapot however if you check sample all

layers it will take all of the layers

into consideration no matter what layer

is selected and then when you make a

selection even on an empty layer it

considers the teapot that's all the

difference there is I'm gonna check it

off for now let's go back to how it was

now we want to place these objects on a

new lab so that we can place it on a

luxurious surface so for it we already

have a selection so just drag it and

drop it to the plus to make a duplicate

and then with the selection active click

on the mask button so right now we have

the objects on its separate layer below

it let's introduce something so I have

this marble texture right here let's

drag it and drop it right here and make

it larger

now of course this is not looking

realistic so change the blend mode from

normal to Overlay since this is a gray

background how does that look it looks

okay but let us try multiply multiply

looks even more realistic but we need to

brighten little bits of it to add some

drama why not add a curves adjustment

layer click on the adjustment layer icon

and then choose curves keep in mind

whatever we are doing we are doing it

underneath the objects now to make the

bright areas brighter let's open up the

properties of the curves adjustment

layer so click on the symbol of the

curves adjustment layer and let's take

this slider on the right to the left now

this is looking nice now we only want to

add this highlight to a particular area

so let's keep it that way select the

mask press Ctrl or command I to invert

it now you can take the brush white as

the foreground color make the brush

larger you can take a soft round brush

and just dab right here with white

there you go have a look at it that is

looking fantastic if you want a little

more range you can use the gradient tool

right here white to black gradient make

sure you choose the radial gradient and

just draw a gradient like this so right

here inside of the Mask we have this

gradient and it looks fantastic let's

try one more time like this that is even

better

so here's the before not as nice here's

the after now let's talk about Adobe

Sensei AI tools and the first one is

Select sky and it's as simple to

understand as its name it does select

the sky so right here we have a

beautiful long exposure wouldn't it be

fantastic to have a more dramatic sky so

for it let's first make a selection of

the sky so let's go to select and choose

Sky that's all once you have a selection

you can do whatever you want with it so

click on the adjustment layer icon and

then choose curves now let me share with

you a trick of Curves by the time we get

to Curves in this course probably you'll

learn all the tricks of it and how to

use it in the first place let's zoom in

and let's say this is the area that we

want to brighten use the hand right here

click on the hand click and drag it up

to brighten the brightness levels of

that area there you go and let's say

this is the brightness level that we

want to darken notice that as you hover

through the image it gives you an

indication of where that brightness

level Falls so click and drag it down to

darken it

there you go zoom out and analyze so

here's the before

he has The Afters so dramatic now you

can always go back and modify this I

feel that this needs to be a little

darker and the dark areas needs to be a

little more darker so there's how you

add that drama now let's talk about

another Adobe Sensei or adobe AI feature

and that is Select subject we have

already talked tons about it but there's

a little more to it so here we have a

beautiful landscape and let us composite

a subject on top of it let's drag it and

drop it over the landscape hit enter or

return now the select subject button

will only show up if you choose one of

these three tools the object selection

the quick selection or the magic one I

don't know how many times I've said that

but it's important that it gets in your

head now you can simply click on select

subject and it does a pretty good job it

does some AI calculations and there you

have it let's create a mask out of it by

clicking on the mask button right here

let's take a look at the mask hold the

ALT key the option key and click on the

mask to see just it so this is the

masking and it's pretty good even if you

look at the edges they're pretty

straight and amazing now that's one way

of doing it if you want a little more

accurate result here's what you do let's

go back to how it was before the

selection you can click on the drop down

right next to it and choose Cloud so

right now device is selected what it

does is that it does the calculations

makes the selections using your computer

power if you choose Cloud it uses Adobe

servers to make a more accurate

selection but keep in mind it does send

your image to the cloud to be processed

so if you're concerned about privacy

maybe you don't want to do that it's

absolutely up to you as to where you

stand but for me accuracy is important

so I just simply choose cloud and click

on select subject now if you create a

mask you would notice that it is

relatively more accurate even if you

look back right here it is relatively

more accurate you can do a couple tests

of your own and then decide for yourself

now once you have a mask let's click on

the layer to get back to the layer now

there's a problem with this composite

can you tell what the problem is have a

look in the background the light is

coming from the right hand side and the

shadow is on the left hand side but on

the subject the light is coming from the

left hand side and the shadow is on the

right hand side so how do we fix it you

can either flip the landscape or flip

the subject up to you so select the

subject layer press Ctrl or command d

right click on it and then choose flip

horizontal and there you go fantastic

composite there's another problem with

this the depth is just not there if you

look at the original Background by

holding the shift key and clicking on

the mask it turns off the mask have a

look it is blurred but this one is not

as blurred we can blur it just a little

bit so select the background lip let's

go to filter and first convert for smart

filters so that you can change the

filter level later let's go to filter

blur gallery and we're going to use tilt

shift right here you see these solid

lines that's where the blur starts what

do I mean by that so let's say the blur

is

157 so right here along this sonnet line

the blur is zero as we gradually move

towards one of these dotted lines from

here to here the Blurred gradually

increases for example right here at zero

right head may be 10 20 30 40 50 and it

goes till 157 now what is 157 it is the

number you chose right here now any area

Beyond this dotted line is blurred at

157 pixels similarly the top area as

well so this is zero as we gradually

move up 0 5 10 15 30 40 50 60 and right

here it is 157 and Beyond it it is 157

and the area between the solid lines

play with zero now the way we can work

with it is this the place where he's

standing that area definitely is in

Focus so we can assume his feet is right

here and the blur starts from there and

let's take it all the way to this area

so that we have a garage drill blur and

we don't want to add so much blur if you

want to go for it go for it but for

right this image

we're just gonna go for maybe 22. hit

okay

now that looks more realistic now of

course you can play with the masking fix

the hair which we'll cover later now you

can easily make selections based on

color you can tell Photoshop all right

this is the color I want to select and

it will do that for you so right here

let's say you want to remove the green

screen so let's go to select and then

color range so right here first of all

you can click whatever color you want to

select or you can click on the drop down

of the select right here you can select

the Reds the yellows

the greens science these are presets you

can select highlights

or the Shadows it's up to you so I'm

going to choose sampled colors what that

allows you to do is to sample a color

from the image so right now we want to

select the greens but this my friend is

a preview so how do we turn the preview

off click on the drop down of the

selection preview and set that to none

so that no matter what we select the

image stays the way it is and right in

here inside of this box we can see the

preview white other areas that is

selected black are the areas that are

not selected you can click on image to

look at the image but I leave it at

selection now with the eyedropper right

here make sure it is the first

eyedropper you can click right here to

select the greens as you can see this is

a fantastic selection of that color

right here at the top we have fuzziness

you can think of fuzziness as the

tolerance that we covered when we were

talking about the magic wand tool it is

simply how similar colors we will be

selecting if the fuzziness is low

colors very close to it will be selected

as you can see right here as you begin

to increase the fuzziness more and more

similar colors to the color that you

have selected are going to be selected

if the fuzziness is too high it's also

going to select the insides of it by the

way you can change the selection preview

to grayscale to see the same preview

right here white are the areas that are

selected of course we don't want her

arms her skin her eyes to be selected

this is a scary image so let's decrease

the fuzziness to about 120 that's nice A

little bit of the eye is selected but we

can take care of that and by the way if

you want to add to this color so besides

green there's a different shade of green

which you also want to select you can

click on the plus eyedropper and keep on

adding that shade of green let's hit OK

for now here we have a selection another

trick for adding different shades is

this let's go to select color range with

this one and let's say I wanted to

select the Reds of this cup so with the

eyedropper I clicked on it now there are

different Shades that are not selected

first of all let's decrease the

fuzziness to about 50 okay so click on

the plus eyedropper and you can keep on

adding different shades or you can also

draw so you can just click and hold and

draw over it

once you release all of those shades are

selected click and hold and draw over it

so you can either click click or just

hold and draw let's get back to this

image once you have the selection done

you can hold the ALT key or the option

key and then click on the mask button y

to create a negative mask to fill that

selected area with black inside of the

Mask because that's what we want we want

to remove it now this method is

fantastic because it allows you to go

through objects like Wheels where the

selection has to be so so fine right now

of course the masking is not proper if

you hold the ALT key or the option key

and click on it there are a couple areas

which are left out so you can take the

brush white as the foreground color make

sure the mask is selected and paint

these areas back in not a big deal once

you're done you can change the

background to whatever you like let's

add a pattern click on the adjustment

layer icon and then choose pattern this

is the pattern fill and you can go with

anything you want trees let's go with

this one for now just to show you what

it does hit OK of course this needs to

be at the back of the subject you can

double click on it and just like a

gradient adjustment layer you can move

it around to your liking now sometimes

when you create a background let's say a

different colored background like this

one there's a little green still left on

the veil how do we remove it by simply

creating a hue saturation adjustment

clip click on the adjustment layer icon

and then choose Hue saturation we want

it to be limited to the subject layer

how do we do that by creating a clipping

mask what is another way of creating a

clipping mask that is simply clicking on

this button you can also hold the ALT

key and click on the line between the

two layers now we want to Target the

greens so for it let's click on the drop

down and choose greens you can increase

the range of greens selected first of

all let's take the Hue and the

saturation all the way to the right to

see which areas are being targeted then

you can expand the range so that the

skin is not selected but all of the

greens are so if you go too high skin

would be selected so watch out for it

and you can make the transition Smoother

by increasing the Gap right here even on

the right hand side you can expand it

there you go this is nice and now you

can decrease the overall saturation like

this

there you go now the greens are gone

fantastic isn't it you can even move the

Hue a little bit now you can easily have

whatever background you want and not

have the greens attached to it when it

comes to selecting hair or fur there are

so many details so many fine things that

you need some special tools to select

them and we're going to be using select

and mask now do keep in mind that select

and mask is such a vast topic that it

deserves a video of its own we're going

to talk about the fundamentals that will

get the job done for you so right here

we have this cat sometimes select

subject is not enough there are lots of

times when it's not enough so we're just

gonna click on select subject by the way

how did we get the select and subject

button by choosing one of these three

tools right here and then we click on

select subject and now let's click on

the mask button to mask it out let's put

a black background click on the

adjustment layer icon and then choose

solid color let's choose black right

here put it behind the Cat Let's name

the last organization is important now

as you can see the fur is completely

gone this is absolutely not a good

selection so you can click on the mask

and go to select and mask by clicking on

select and mask at the top now how do we

see the select and mask button you

choose any selection tool any selection

tool and at the top you will see the

select and mask button now we can

definitely go to select and mask it will

open up a new dialog box and you can

improve the selection right here or you

can just do nothing and make the

selection from scratch inside of Select

and mask as well it's up to you so let's

say there was no mask let's drag it and

drop it into the trash can or you can

simply select the mask and press the

delete key it will go that way as well

let's click on select and mask and

directly go there right now you have

different views the first view right

here is onion skin now let's change the

background color to something else so

you can know what onion skin is let's

change the background color to dark

purple hit okay let's select the cat

let's go back to selected mask the first

view is onion skin

if you increase the transparency all the

way to 100 only the areas that are

selected will show up and the areas that

are not selected will be of the color of

the layers underneath it so the layer

underneath the cat was what it was

purple so that's why it shows up and

right now nothing is selected so nothing

else shows up if you decrease the

transparency all the way to zero

everything shows up no matter whether

you have a selection or not so let's set

the transparency to about 50 so that you

can understand it better the first tool

right here on the left is the quick

selection tool and using that tool let's

say we make a selection of the cat and

by the way how did I make the brush

larger don't forget hold the ALT key or

the option key the right Mouse button on

Windows drag it to the right to make it

larger drag it to the left to make it

smaller on a Mac however this shortcut

is different and you hold the control

and option and then click and drag so

let's start making a selection so if the

transparency is at zero everything shows

up whether you have made a selection or

not if the transparency is at 100 only

the areas that you have selected will

show up the rest of the areas will

comprise of the layers underneath it

again there are different kinds of views

there is marching ends this shows

marching ends there is on black view or

on white view if we choose on white view

if the opacity is at zero as usual

everything shows up if the opacity is at

100 only only the selected area shows up

and the rest of the areas are you

guessed it right white because the white

view is selected then there is black and

white white are the areas that are

selected black are the areas that are

not selected very easy to understand for

this example let's set it to on black

and you can decrease the transparency to

see the areas which are not selected

let's make the brush a bit smaller let's

select this area that area now this is

nice now for the edges there's another

tool and that is called the refine Edge

tool right here now before we get into

the refine Edge too you can also try

this new button in the later versions of

Photoshop and that is refine here if you

click on it it finds out hair and fur

and tries to paint over it automatically

let's click on refine here and it does a

pretty good job let's increase the

opacity

there you go it did the fur idea very

well but it left out this area so how do

we fix that area again you can paint

with the refine Edge brush tool let's

paint over the messy areas

and Photoshop does the rest for you hit

OK there you go that looks much better

now there are so many ways to select

here and different situations ask for

different techniques you can refer to

this guide about selecting here it

covers every technique that I recommend

for every situation whether you have a

busy background an easy background a

white background whatever the situation

might be you can go through this guide

now there are lots of obsolete

techniques that we are not covering

because they simply do not work have a

look at this one so here we have our

subject in focus and the background out

of focus now Adobe did make a selection

technique for it if you go to select

there is an option right here called

Focus area what it's supposed to do is

to select the areas that are in Focus

but if you click on it it sometimes

works sometimes doesn't and often the

result is not as good have a look at it

this is what it selects you can play

with the focus range still it is not up

to the mark even a simple select subject

does better than this so yeah there are

many techniques like this and we don't

need to cover it or learn it it's fine

now let's say you worked really really

hard to create a selection of the

subject and you want to save this

selection maybe you used hours with the

pen tool are you zoomed in spending a

lot of time with the quick selection

tool to get it just right and just to be

safe you want to save the selection how

do you do that you simply go to select

and then save selection you can name it

whatever you want you can save it as a

new channel so I'm just going to name it

couple all right hit OK press controller

command D don't worry about it you can

go on and carry on with your editing

work the selection is saved now you

might ask good mesh that is fine but

where is it saved and how can I load it

there are two ways you can go to

channels right here or if you don't see

channels go to window and make sure

channels is checked now inside of

channels you will have this couple

Channel all you have to do is to hold

the control or command click on the

thumbnail of the couple Channel and you

have your your selection back one other

straightforward way is you can easily go

to select and then load selection and in

the drop down choose couple if you have

other selections saved it will show up

right here choose the couple one hit

okay and there you have your selection

and that's not a save and load

selections now there are three major

ways in which we can modify a selection

number one contract now what is contract

it's not the agreement that we are

talking about it is simply decreasing it

in size by the way I looked it up in a

dictionary so right here we have a

statue and we mask it out as you can see

there's still a little bit of the Halos

around the edge so how can we fix it

first of all let's load the selection

you can create a selection out of a mask

by holding the control or command and

clicking on the mask right here now we

have a selection now if we want to push

the selection in or in other words

decrease the size of the selection we

can easily go to select modify and then

contract

now how many pixels you want to contract

it by how much you want to push it in

and this is measured in pixels so let's

first zoom in hit cancel for now how

many pixels we want to push it in that's

one two three about two or three let's

put it two for now let's go to select

modify and then contract right here

let's choose two pixels hit OK as you

can see the selection goes inside by 2

pixels and now we can paint the outside

with black inside of the Mask so right

now the statue is selected we want to

select the opposite of it now how do we

invert a selection not a mask just the

selection we press Ctrl shift I command

shift I it inverts the selection and we

want to fill it up with black so with

the foreground color black you can

always press X to toggle between the

foreground and the background press alt

backspace or option delete and there you

go it's gone press Ctrl or command D the

Halos are gone now the second way to

modify selection is expanding but why

would you want to use it let us

understand with this example let's say

you want to blur the background for it

we want the subject to be on a separate

layer so select the background layer and

then press Ctrl or command J to create a

duplicate now select any of these three

tools to have the select subject at the

top I'm repeating it too much click on

select subject but we need to understand

it as well now once you have a selection

let's click on the mask button right

here to mask it out and now we have a

subject on a separate layer let's name

this layer subject now we cannot just

simply select the background and blur it

if we try to do that it will create a

haloing effect around the edge

so if you select the background let's go

to filter blur and then gaussian blur

for now

have a look it creates this halo effect

around the edge 52.4 is okay hit okay

why is the halo effect happening because

if you turn off the subject the

background we just blurred also had the

subject in it which also got blurred so

when you turn on the subject that didn't

sound right but anyway you see this

haloing around the edge that is the

Blurred part of the subject that we just

blurred along with the background so we

need to remove the subject before

blurring the background again we cannot

simply remove it have a look at it let's

go back to how it was now let's turn off

the subject layer for now let's make a

duplicate of the background layer just

to have a backup press Ctrl or command J

and now let's make a selection of the

subject again we already have a mask so

hold the Ctrl or command click on the

mask to create a selection to load the

selection and then if you directly go to

edit and then content aware fill and

make sure the output is current layer to

keep it simple and hit OK you'll see

some problem press Ctrl or command D

have a look around the edges it leaves

out traces so how do we fix that let's

go back to how it was the way to fix it

is first let's load the selection by

holding the control or command and

clicking on the mask and now what if you

expand the selection by going to select

modify and then expand let's expand it

by 50 pixels that should be fine hit OK

it is expanded and now let's fill it

let's go to edit content aware fill no

chance of leaving traces hit OK

now the subject is gone press Ctrl or

command D and now let's turn on the

subject and now you can select the

background right here let's go to filter

convert for smart filters so that

whatever filter we apply we can change

the values later now let's go to filter

blur Gallery tilt shift because we want

to add a gradual blur we already covered

tilt shift before in this lesson so if

this is confusing to you you can rewind

the video

let's start the blur from right here

make it gradual to this point

and add some blur about 70. hit OK and

that's how to blur the background I did

too much so that you can see what is

happening right here so here's the

before here's the after and the last

major way to modify a selection is

feather it simply makes it soft we

already covered it when we were talking

about the lasso tool but you can modify

it later as well and here's how to do it

let's say you want to add some shine to

the eyes so for it let us choose the

elliptical Marquee tool and create a new

layer first of all click on the new

layer button and create an ellipse like

this now to move the ellipse as you're

holding the mouse or the graphic tablet

hold the spacebar to move it around and

set it inside of the eyeball just like

this let's make it slightly smaller

set it like this this is fine let's

leave it B now we don't want it on the

eyeball so hold the ALT key or the

option key to subtract it and drag it

like this now as you're holding the ALT

key or the option key you can also hold

the spacebar to move it around

so let's move it around like this okay

now also we want to subtract the top so

hold the ALT key or the option key again

and create one like this let's subtract

the top if you want to subtract the

bottom and want to keep just the intest

section you can click on this button

right here and create one like this see

that keeps only the intersection now if

you directly fill it with white first of

all make sure the foreground color is

white press X to toggle between the

foreground and the background and if you

fill it by pressing alt backspace or

option delete

it's just too harsh let's go back by

pressing Ctrl or command Z or Z let's go

to select modify and then feather let's

add a feather of about 10 pixels hit OK

and now it is soft and now let's fill it

by pressing alt backspace it's much

softer press Ctrl or command D to

deselect and now you can change the

blend mode of this one from normal to

Overlay and that's how you add light to

the eyes now we can definitely make a

copy of this light for the other eye

select the move tool right here hold the

ALT key or the option key and click and

drag and drop it right here there you go

we can move it around slightly

so that it's perfect have a look at her

Fury eyes now select the first layer

hold the controller command select the

second one and then press Ctrl or

command G to group it because it's too

much so let's decrease the overall

opacity

to about

50 that's nicer so here's the before

here's the after and that's how you use

feather in selections so that's all the

fundamentals about Selections in

Photoshop just keep in mind what is the

selection it's simply an area that we

are targeting what you can do with it is

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