From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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The ultimate in masking automation - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
The ultimate in masking automation
Photoshop's other great masking automation tool is every bit as good as Color Range. It also lives under the Select menu and it goes by the name Refine Edge. Take a crude selection, something that just vaguely traces the edges of an image element and then choose the Refine Edge command. Its first right edge detection technology hunts down the most fragile of details and selects them. Just so you don't get confused this one command goes by two names. When applied to a selection outline it's called Refine Edge. When applied to a layer mask it's Refine Mask. Choose either and Photoshop presents you with what might be Adobe's best approximation of mind reading automation. That is to say it takes a rough selection and turns it into the thing that you wanted in the first place. So let's review. The Quick Selection tool is not quick, the Magnetic Lasso is only slightly magnetic, and the Magic Wand, well, hardly, but Refine Edge is real bona- fide refinement.
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Introducing the Refine Mask command6m 58s
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Automated edge detection8m 23s
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Turning garbage into gold6m 19s
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Starting with an accurate selection7m 11s
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Selection outline in, layer mask out7m 48s
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Matching a scene with Smart Filters4m 29s
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Cooling a face, reflecting inside eyes4m 45s
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Creating a layer of ghoulish skin4m 28s
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Adding dark circles around the eyes5m 20s
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Creating a fake blood effect5m 38s
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Establishing trails of blood7m 40s
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Integrating the blood into the scene7m 3s
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The ultimate in masking automation1m 6s
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