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Selecting with Color Range

Selecting with Color Range - Photoshop Tutorial

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Selecting with Color Range

If you saw the movie Avatar you may recall that the Na'vi people have blue skin and yet their hair remains brown. So it's basically human colored hair set against this alien skin. And this is a little bit of a challenge from an image editing perspective because it means that we need to color the skin independently of the hair. So we need to leave the hair absolutely alone and just change the skin, which means that we need a selection of some type, either a mask or a selection. Really for all intents and purposes they're the same thing inside Photoshop. Still working inside this image called second liquification.psd, and I've got the brow & nose layer selected. I'm going to switch to the liquify eyes layer right there, go ahead and click on it because this layer doesn't have a layer mask and the command that we're about to employ has a tendency to override or mess up or get confused by layer masks. So click on liquify eyes, and then we'll go up to the Select menu and choose Color…

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