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Selecting faces with color range

Selecting faces with color range - Photoshop Tutorial

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Selecting faces with color range

- The color range selection command enables you to of course create a selection based on a range of color values within the image and there's actually an option within the color range command to specifically focus on skin tones, which can be very helpful obviously when you are created a selection of a face of a person for example. It's not always perfect, but it can be very helpful. Let's take a look at a couple of examples here. First off, we'll look at a situation where the color range command doesn't really help us too much with skin tones. Here we have a couple that is set against a beautiful building, but you might notice right from the start that the colors in the background are pretty similar to the colors in those skin tones. And so if I go to the select menu and then choose the color range command, that will bring up the color range dialogue. I'll switch my preview to none so we can still see the actual image in the main area here and instead of selecting sample colors, I'm…

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