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Evaluating a selection in Quick Mask

Evaluating a selection in Quick Mask - Photoshop Tutorial

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Evaluating a selection in Quick Mask

In this exercise I'm going to show you how to gauge the quality of a selection outline in the Quick Mask mode, and then address any problems you may see. I'm still working inside ManlySaw image.jpg found inside the 08_selections folder, and if you're working along with me I'd like you to visit the History panel once again, so that you can see how long our list of history operations has become, and because my Quick Selection wasn't really all that quick to create, you can see how many times I had to click and drag with a tool. I want to go ahead ad back it up in memory by creating another snapshot. So I'm going to press the Alt key or the Option key on the Mac and click that little Camera icon, and then I'll go ahead and call this guy quick blade and click OK, and now I have another snapshot. So if I click on selection safety, I'm going to see the magic wand state of that saw blade, and if I click on quick blade I'll see the most recent version of the selection outline. Now notice that…

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