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Turning garbage into gold

Turning garbage into gold - Photoshop Tutorial

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Turning garbage into gold

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Okay, so after watching that previous exercise you may feel like well, I guess the quick selection tool isn't really that bad as long as you go ahead and combine it with refine edge. That would be the wrong moral to the story. The actual moral is, the refine edge command can do that with any selection outline. So what I'm going to show you in this exercise is how you can start with the roughest selection imaginable and then make it altogether better using nothing more than the Refine Radius tool, just that one tool by itself. All right, so we're going to start things off inside the original version of Sunny and sky.psd once again found inside the 07_refine folder and I'm going to select the image using the Lasso tool. So I'll go ahead and select the Lasso or press the L key, and then I'll press the Alt key or the Option key on the Mac and I'll just click around the image like so in order to draw this polygonal selection outline. And notice that I'm not laying down all that many…

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