From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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Introducing "selection calculations" - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
Introducing "selection calculations"
In this exercise I am going to introduce you to the basic selection calculations that are available to you inside Photoshop. Now I don't want to scare you with the term calculations, there is no math involved here. These are merely ways to add to existing selection outlines, subtract from them and so forth. And they are ultimately ways of combining selections so that you can create more complex ones. Now notice up here in the options bar we have four icons right at the outset when you're using any one of the selection tools that we've seen so far. The first icon is the one that's selected by default, it says New selection. So any time you drag or click with a tool you're going to create a new Selection Outline. Next we've got one that allows you to add to an existing selection, or you can subtract from that existing selection and finally you can find the intersection of two selections and I'll show you what that looks like in just a moment. But in the meantime, let me tell you that…
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Introducing "selection calculations"4m 19s
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Combining two different tools7m 29s
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Selections and transparency masks5m 17s
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Selecting an eye7m 1s
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Masking and blending a texture into skin5m 1s
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Painting a texture into an eye4m 19s
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Combining layers, masks, channels, and paths4m 54s
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Moving selection outlines vs. selected pixels5m 36s
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Transforming and warping a selection outline7m 45s
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Pasting an image inside a selection7m 26s
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Adding volumetric shadows and highlights6m 54s
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Converting an image into a mask4m 42s
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Selections reign supreme56s
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