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Evaluating a selection in Quick Mask - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals
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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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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