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Selecting and replacing a background - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
Selecting and replacing a background
In this exercise we're going to select that black background behind the frog and we are going to turn it into a kind of blue sky complete with this lens flare effect, and we are going to do so once again using the Magic Wand tool, and hopefully along the way you'll get a clearer sense for how to use that Tolerance setting. I've saved my progress as Golden frog skin.psd. I am going to go ahead and click on the original frog layer once again, and now with the Magic Wand active, I'll go ahead and press the Enter key or the Return key on the Mac in order to highlight the Tolerance value and I'll change it to 0, so that we're selecting one and only one Luminance level. Then I'll click in the background, and amazingly I'll go ahead and zoom out here a little bit so that we can see. Amazingly, I've managed to select the entire thing and that's because where this image is concerned the entire background has been reduced to black. Now I imagine what happened in this case was that the…
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The marquee tools6m 31s
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The single-pixel tools (plus tool tricks)6m 48s
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Turning a destructive edit into a layer5m 34s
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Making shapes of specific sizes7m 7s
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The lasso tools5m 49s
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Working with the Magnetic Lasso tool7m 19s
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The Quick Selection tool8m 13s
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Combining Quick Selection and Smudge4m 52s
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The Magic Wand and the Tolerance value6m 55s
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Contiguous and Anti-aliased selections6m 58s
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Making a good selection with the Magic Wand6m 34s
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Selecting and replacing a background6m 55s
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Resolving edges with layer effects7m 52s
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Adding lines of brilliant gold type7m 28s
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The seven selection soldiers52s
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