Creating masks with selections and Refine Edge

…Two of my favorite tools for selecting and isolating specific parts of an image…are the Quick Selection tools and then the Refine Edge and Refine Mask tools.…Now, notice how I said two.…The reason I said two, I consider Refine Edge and…Refine Mask to be the same process.…It just depends on whether you saved your selection as a mask and then refined it or…whether you actually just kept it a selection and refined your selection.…But overall, it starts with a quick selection tool.…In this video we're going to focus specifically on working with…the quick selection tool and using the Refine Edge command.…

So, as you look at the composite, you can see I have two layers in my project.…And the top layer is completely covering up the bottom layer.…And so this bottom layer is just kind of a fun composite of sand dunes with…this ridiculous sunset in the background.…And we've got our llama.…So of course, you know, our llama's sitting her in the woods and…I would like him to actually appear out in the desert.…So, we'll isolate him off of the background.…