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Making soft-edged selections

Making soft-edged selections - Photoshop Tutorial

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Making soft-edged selections

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- [Instructor] Photoshop's select subject and select and mask features are essential when selecting soft edge objects like fur and hair. Select subject uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to try to identify the primary subject in the image, and then select and mask can help to refine the selection to separate the hard to select areas. Now, select subject can be done on your device or in the cloud, and we're going to take a look at the difference. In this image, I want to select the sheep and then decrease the amount of yellow in the fur. So I'll choose the select menu and then subject, and by default, Photoshop is going to run the AI on the device, and it gave us very quick results. I'm going to save this by choosing select, save selection. I'll name it local, and then we'll save this, and it will save it into our channels panel. Then I'll deselect it, and on the Mac, I'll choose the Photoshop menu, and…

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