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The Localized Color Clusters option

The Localized Color Clusters option - Photoshop Tutorial

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The Localized Color Clusters option

In this exercise, I'm going to introduce you to this check box right here, Localized Color Clusters, give you a sense of how it works and why it's there. I'm still working inside the Lips.jpg image, haven't really done anything to it. A while back, I selected the Color Range command from the Select menu. So far, we've been working on selecting the flesh in the background with the idea that we'll ultimately reverse the selection in order to get the lips. But I was telling you that's not really going to work. The better approach where these lips are concerned is to go ahead and click inside of the lips, in order to select them. Now in order to see what I'm doing, I'm going to change the Selection Preview back to None, so I can see the lips in full color inside the image window. Then I'm going to Shift+Drag over some details here in order to add to the selection. So far, I seem to be doing a pretty good job of selecting the lips without selecting the flesh in the background and the…

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