Introducing the Refine Mask command

In these first few exercises, I am going to introduce you to the Refine Edge…command, which alternately goes by the name Refine Mask, and then after that we…will use the command to create a real-world project.…I am starting off inside this file called Rough skyshark.psd found inside…the 07_refine folder.…It's a version of that composition from the previous chapter.…We've got the Background, we have the rainbow, we have the shadow underneath the…shark and we also have the alternate coloring scheme.…However, we also have the rough edges.…So I am going to go ahead and press Ctrl +1 or Command+1 on the Mac to zoom in,…zoom in a little farther as well, so you can see that we have those original…rough edges that were created by the Color Range command.…

Now you may recall on the previous chapter, we address these rough edges using a…combination of Gaussian Blur and the Levels command, and I was telling you…that's an old-school approach.…What we are going to see in this exercise is the new school approach,…