609 Bringing back Refine Mask in Photoshop CC

- Hey gang, this is Deke McClelland.…Welcome to Deke's Techniques.…Now, as many of you know,…Photoshop used to offer this wonderful feature…called Refine Mask,…that did just what it sounds like it does.…It'd take a layer mask and make it that much better.…Now, nobody thought the feature should be replaced,…nothing about it was broken,…and yet Adobe, in its infinite wisdom,…went ahead and swapped out Refine Mask…for the Select and Mask Workspace.…Well, there's nothing, per se,…wrong with Select and Mask,…it's just different.…

It uses a fundamentally different algorithm…to work its refinement magic.…And sometimes it works better,…oftentimes however, it doesn't.…And I submit for your approval,…Deke's Techniques number 115,…back in the year 2012,…in which we take some type and bleed it into this hedge…in order to create leafy letters.…This is what the effect looked like,…subject to Refine Mask,…and this is how it looks now,…subject to Select and Mask.…Now, it might not look that much different,…but notice the D.…

See that divot right there?…