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Refine a selection - Pixelmator Tutorial
From the course: Learning Pixelmator
Refine a selection
- You have a couple different ways to refine a selection, you can set an initial refinement before you start, or make a change afterwards. Let me show you. Let's open up this one here called, refining a selection, and take that fullscreen. For this one, I'd like to show you a couple of options. If I grab the polygonal lasso and, I click here, on the menu, we can work with smooth edges. This'll ensure that we have a gentler transition. Once I make my initial selection here, it may also be helpful to visualize that. So, if I choose to edit and quick mask mode, I get a pretty good idea of what's selected. After this, you can always choose to refine things a bit. In quick mask mode here, I can grab a paintbrush tool, zoom in a little bit with command plus, and simply paint, using black, I can add to that mask. This allows me to fill in any problem areas. Holding down the shift key, as you click with the paintbrush, is a great way to paint a straight line. And you can use that to refine…
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