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Drawing a geometric selection outline - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals
Drawing a geometric selection outline
In this exercise, we are going to select the moon using the Elliptical Marquee tool. I've gone ahead and saved my Sky with guide as Sky with guide.jpg, found inside the 08_selections folder. It does have a guideline down the center of it. If you don't see that guideline, it's because it's hidden. So you would press Ctrl+Semicolon, or Command+Semicolon on the Mac, to bring it back. Alright. Let's switch over to Full moon.jpg found inside the 08_selections folder as well. Now, when you see a central subject like this one, set against a plain background, whether white or black or some other color, it's very tempting to go at it using one of the automated selection tools, whether the Quick Selection tool or the Magic Wand tool. The problem with both of these tools is that they generate fairly ratty selection outlines. That is jagged and sort of squarish as well. That's not going to work out for our nicely contoured rounded moon shape right here. So we might as well use a tool that's going…
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Photoshop versus the real world1m 21s
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Meet the selection tools10m 26s
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Marking the center of an image4m 9s
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Drawing a geometric selection outline4m 45s
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Blurring a selection outline with Feather6m 8s
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Copy and paste versus drag and drop5m 31s
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Creating a graduated selection4m 29s
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Aligning one image with another4m 45s
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Accessing the Move tool on the fly3m 34s
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Invert and Match Colors5m 4s
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Matching colors selectively3m 52s
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Feathering and filling a selection5m 14s
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Dressing up a composition with effects5m 34s
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The incredible image rotation trick2m 18s
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The Magic Wand tool4m 12s
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Tolerance and other options7m 7s
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Grow, Similar, and Inverse5m 39s
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Quick selection and the Magnetic Lasso7m 27s
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Evaluating a selection in Quick Mask8m 52s
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Saving and loading selections6m 14s
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Placing an image with a layer mask3m 22s
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Eliminating edge fringing7m 43s
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