From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals
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Creating a graduated selection - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals
Creating a graduated selection
In this exercise, I'll show you how to create a graduated selection outline, one that fades in a single direction, in our case from bottom to top. I've gone ahead and saved my progress as Moon on sky.psd, found inside the 08 selections folder, and I'm going to switch over to this image, The wide road.jpg. And what I want to do is I want to select from about here in the sky, downward and I want the selection to fade in. So the sky will fade in and in the road will be entirely selected. So we'll start off by grabbing the Rectangular Marquee tool. And then, I'm going to zoom out from the image, like so, and I'll drag about here, in order to select this region of the image. So we want to select about an inch of sky. And I know there's no way for me to say an inch of sky, because you could be zoomed in or zoomed out. Your screen could be any old resolution, but about that much sky and the road, like so, and then release. Now, at this point we have a hard edge selection, and the Rectangular…
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Photoshop versus the real world1m 21s
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Meet the selection tools10m 26s
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Marking the center of an image4m 9s
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Drawing a geometric selection outline4m 45s
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Blurring a selection outline with Feather6m 8s
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Copy and paste versus drag and drop5m 31s
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Creating a graduated selection4m 29s
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Aligning one image with another4m 45s
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Accessing the Move tool on the fly3m 34s
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Invert and Match Colors5m 4s
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Matching colors selectively3m 52s
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Feathering and filling a selection5m 14s
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Dressing up a composition with effects5m 34s
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The incredible image rotation trick2m 18s
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The Magic Wand tool4m 12s
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Tolerance and other options7m 7s
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Grow, Similar, and Inverse5m 39s
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Quick selection and the Magnetic Lasso7m 27s
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Evaluating a selection in Quick Mask8m 52s
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Saving and loading selections6m 14s
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Placing an image with a layer mask3m 22s
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Eliminating edge fringing7m 43s
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