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Grow, Similar, and Inverse - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals
Grow, Similar, and Inverse
In this exercise, I am going to introduce you to a couple of commands that are inexorably linked to the behavior of the Magic Wand tool. And those are under the Select menu the Grow command and the Similar command both of which expand an existing selection outline according to the Tolerance value that you set for the Magic Wand. And then we'll finish off the exercise using the Inverse command. Now then before we can use Grow or Similar, I'd like you to understand how they work. I'm going to go ahead and switch back to Gradients.psd found inside the 08_selections folder, and I'm going to click in the top gradient in order to, in this case, since the Tolerance value is set to 12, select 12 luminance levels lighter and 12 luminance level darker than the click point. Now, watch what happens when I go to the Select menu and choose the Grow command. Photoshop goes ahead and expands the selection outline another 12 luminance levels brighter and darker than the former selection. So in other…
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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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