Refining a selection

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Jul 22, 2009
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I sometimes need to make a selection of an area in a picture. Many times I dont manage to mark exactly what I want.

Is there a method for refining the the selection? I dont want to restart the selection work.
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tony cooper
Jul 22, 2009
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:49:57 +0200, "Bjørnar S. Pedersen" wrote:

I sometimes need to make a selection of an area in a picture. Many times I dont manage to mark exactly what I want.

Is there a method for refining the the selection? I dont want to restart the selection work.

Read up on, and learn to use, the Quick Mask and Layer Masks. They allow you to do exactly what you want because you "paint" your selection and "unpaint" at will.

Quick Mask is probably the easiest to learn. There are many on-line tutorials on this.

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Tony Cooper – Orlando, Florida
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jaSPAMc
Jul 22, 2009
"Bjørnar S. Pedersen" found these unused words:

I sometimes need to make a selection of an area in a picture. Many times I dont manage to mark exactly what I want.

Is there a method for refining the the selection? I dont want to restart the selection work.

Press F1 or be bold and use the SHIFT/ALT keys.
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Paul Burdett
Jul 23, 2009
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bdchmura
Aug 1, 2009
Bjørnar S. Pedersen wrote:
I sometimes need to make a selection of an area in a picture. Many times I dont manage to mark exactly what I want.

Is there a method for refining the the selection? I dont want to restart the selection work.
this is probably the best book on making Selections and using Layer Masks.

http://www.amazon.ca/Photoshop-Masking-Compositing-Katrin-Ei smann/dp/0735712794/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1 249151627&sr=1-1

HTH

Gary W. Chmura

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