From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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Contiguous and Anti-aliased selections - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
Contiguous and Anti-aliased selections
In this exercise we're going to take a look at these three check boxes that are available in the options bar when you're using the Magic Wand tool. We'll start with Contiguous, very easy to understand, then Sample All Layers, and finally the biggest concept of them all, which is Anti-aliasing. I've gone ahead and re-established the default settings for the Magic Wand tool, and I've restored the saved version of the Gradient demo file. I'm working on a Background layer, as you can see. If I go ahead and click in this top gradient, I select only the adjacent pixels by default. In other words, I don't jump across that blue gap. However, if I turn off Contiguous, which is essentially just another word for adjacent, and then I go ahead and click at that same spot again, notice this time I jumped the gap. So the fact that this blue bar is in the way no longer matters. All right, I'll go ahead and press Ctrl+D or Command +D on the Mac to deselect that area and I'm going to turn Contiguous…
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The marquee tools6m 31s
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The single-pixel tools (plus tool tricks)6m 48s
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Turning a destructive edit into a layer5m 34s
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Making shapes of specific sizes7m 7s
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The lasso tools5m 49s
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Working with the Magnetic Lasso tool7m 19s
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The Quick Selection tool8m 13s
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Combining Quick Selection and Smudge4m 52s
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The Magic Wand and the Tolerance value6m 55s
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Contiguous and Anti-aliased selections6m 58s
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Making a good selection with the Magic Wand6m 34s
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Selecting and replacing a background6m 55s
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Resolving edges with layer effects7m 52s
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Adding lines of brilliant gold type7m 28s
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The seven selection soldiers52s
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