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Workflow tips for selections, masks and adjustment layer

Workflow tips for selections, masks and adjustment layer

From the course: Photo Tools Weekly

Workflow tips for selections, masks and adjustment layer

- Hey, thanks for joining me in another episode of Photo Tools Weekly. In this week's episode, we're gonna explore how we can work in Photoshop. And here we'll talk about how we can work with Selections, Masks, and Adjustment layers so that we can refine our skills there and apply them to one project, but also to the rest of our work as well. Alright, well, are you ready? Let's dive in. Alright, with this project, we're going to begin by making a Selection of this area of the image. You know, I captured this photograph by taking the glass off of the clock, pouring some sand on it, then setting it on the beach. I don't like how bright the sand is. I want to darken up this area. To make a Selection of an area where you have a defined shape, one of the tools that we can use is the Elliptical Marquee Tool. Yet, this tool can be incredibly frustrating, unless you know a shortcut modifier key. Here's what it is. The way that we use this tool is we click and drag out, that creates our…

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