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Correcting wispy edges with Refine Mask

Correcting wispy edges with Refine Mask - Photoshop Tutorial

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Correcting wispy edges with Refine Mask

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- [Narrator] All right, now let's refine the fur around the hood layer. And so, I'm gonna start off by turning on the hood layer right there and clicking on it to make it active. Then we need to go over to the Channels panel and find that hood mask and then load it up either as a selection outline or layer mask, which may make you wonder why in the world we have to do that. Why can't you just refine an alpha channel? And the reason is because there's nothing to compare it to. Notice that I can go up to the Select menu, at least the way things stand right now, and choose Select and Mask. But if I were to twirl open Edge Detection and crank up the radius value, nothing happens, and the same is true if I twirl open Global Refinements and crank up the Smooth value. Nothing happens whatsoever, and that's because both Select and Mask and Refine Edge need to be able to see the composite image for context, which is why both commands are compositing commands, as opposed to strictly speaking…

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