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Isolating Color Range inside a marquee - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop: Channels and Masks
Isolating Color Range inside a marquee
- [Instructor] Alright, so I've gone and made the surfer way too orange. What we need to do now is bring back the original colors, using the color range command once again, but this time, we're going to isolate the effects of color range inside of a rectangular marquee. Alright, I'm gonna turn that layer effect back on. And armed with my rectangular marquee tool, which you can get by pressing the M key, you want to marquee pretty tightly around the surfer. Now I don't want to cut off his fingers, as I've done now, and so I'll use the space bar in order to move that marquee into a better position, but I do want to keep things pretty tight around the surfboard down here and around the top of his head and the edge of his fingers. So for the best results, you want to leave just a little bit of extra room. Alright, now we want to jump a copy of this guy, and the best way to do that is to first make sure that the surfer layer is selected, and then press control+alt+J, or command+option+J on…
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The best selection tools are commands2m 9s
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A brief Magic Wand refresher4m 36s
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Introducing the Color Range command4m 15s
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Working in the Color Range dialog box4m 56s
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Localized color clusters5m 45s
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Selecting complex organic details5m 59s
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Using Color Range to augment a mask4m 27s
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Finessing and feathering a layer mask6m 43s
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Creating a zoom effect with Pinch7m 2s
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Isolating Color Range inside a marquee7m 6s
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Inverting everything with type6m 58s
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Increasing the legibility of type4m 1s
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