From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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Combining Quick Selection and Smudge - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
Combining Quick Selection and Smudge
All right, by now if nothing else, you probably have a sense that the Quick Selection tool isn't all that quick, as witnessed by the length of the previous video. However, there are times where you can get halfway decent work done with it, and that's what we're going to try to do inside of this exercise. I've saved my progress as Three frog foot masks.psd, and even though I've already got these mask that I could work with, I'm going to regenerate the selection by switching back to the Layers panel. Let's go ahead and click on the original Frog layer to make sure it's active, and then grab the Quick Selection tool from the toolbox. Now note, if I click the down pointing arrowhead that my Hardness is still set to 0%, which is not a default setting, by the way, by default that Hardness is 100%. So let's go ahead and reset the defaults by right-clicking on that tool icon on the far left-side of the options bar and then choose Reset tool, and that would turn Auto Enhance off, I'll turn it…
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The marquee tools6m 31s
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The single-pixel tools (plus tool tricks)6m 48s
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Turning a destructive edit into a layer5m 34s
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Making shapes of specific sizes7m 7s
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The lasso tools5m 49s
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Working with the Magnetic Lasso tool7m 19s
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The Quick Selection tool8m 13s
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Combining Quick Selection and Smudge4m 52s
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The Magic Wand and the Tolerance value6m 55s
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Contiguous and Anti-aliased selections6m 58s
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Making a good selection with the Magic Wand6m 34s
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Selecting and replacing a background6m 55s
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Resolving edges with layer effects7m 52s
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Adding lines of brilliant gold type7m 28s
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The seven selection soldiers52s
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