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Selecting and replacing a background

Selecting and replacing a background - Photoshop Tutorial

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Selecting and replacing a background

In this exercise we're going to select that black background behind the frog and we are going to turn it into a kind of blue sky complete with this lens flare effect, and we are going to do so once again using the Magic Wand tool, and hopefully along the way you'll get a clearer sense for how to use that Tolerance setting. I've saved my progress as Golden frog skin.psd. I am going to go ahead and click on the original frog layer once again, and now with the Magic Wand active, I'll go ahead and press the Enter key or the Return key on the Mac in order to highlight the Tolerance value and I'll change it to 0, so that we're selecting one and only one Luminance level. Then I'll click in the background, and amazingly I'll go ahead and zoom out here a little bit so that we can see. Amazingly, I've managed to select the entire thing and that's because where this image is concerned the entire background has been reduced to black. Now I imagine what happened in this case was that the…

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