Practical Photoshop Selections with Richard Harrington

Take charge of Photoshop and make better, more targeted image adjustments with selections—including hard-to-select objects like hair, fuzzy edges, and color ranges. Rich Harrington reveals the importance of precise selections, whether you're masking, changing color and tone, or even storing transparency, and shows you how to make them with the tools in Adobe Photoshop CC. Dive into the Select menu commands and the Marquee, Lasso, and Magic Wand tools, and then learn how to refine your selections with Expand and Contract, Smooth and Feather, Quick Mask, and other controls. Photoshop power users will also enjoy advanced techniques involving the Color Range command and alpha channel selections.

Topics include:

• What are selections?


• Creating masks from selections


• Moving a selection


• Selecting with the Quick Selection tool


• Transforming a selection


• Using the Refine Edge command


• Selecting a color or tonal range throughout the image


• Making a selection with the Pen tool


• Saving a selection as an alpha channel


• Creating a selection from multiple channels with the Calculations command