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Many of us are used to making broad selections by using the magic wand tool which lives under the new tool called quick selection tool. I'm gonna show you how the magic wand tool used to do things and as you see here I have this pretty blue sky but there are some gradations in here and if I click with the magic wand tool you see that it does it's best to grab the pixels that I want. But we have some stragglers here and I have to hold down the shift key and click again to try to clean this up manually. Well the quick selection tool unlike the magic wand tool doesn't really rely on a tolerance settings but it does rely on how fast you use the tool as well as how big the brush is. So I'm gonna try the same thing here with the quick selection tool. So I'm gonna have a 70 pixel brush and I'm gonna go to this default mode right here. This is the mode it's usually on to create a brand new selection. Now as soon as I let go of the mouse this mode is automatically going to enable itself because it's going to figure out that I want to add to selection, so I might want to get some other parts. I can also subtract from the selection from using this guy here and if I want the edges to be enhanced and really head toward the edges more clearly I can use the auto enhance feature. I'm gonna turn that off for now because it slows me down a little tiny bit. So I'm gonna click and I'm gonna start moving my mouse in the blue parts of the sky and the tool is going to analyze the difference between the area that I am clicking in and dragging in and the areas that are of a much significant difference in color. So I'm gonna let go of the mouse and let it catch up and then you'll notice that in a moment the tool once again as I mentioned earlier will switch automatically to the add mode. So I can click and drag and it will continue to add to the selection I already have. So I don't have to hold down the shift key like I would have to with the uh magic wand tool. As you see here the selection is nice and clean, now as I said before if wanted the edges to be a little bit less blocky a little cleaner I can enable auto enhance. I can also continue to work and drag it here, let go of the mouse and see what it does and grab in this antenna a little bit by just dropping down the size of the brush. I'll hold the left bracket key a couple of times and I'll click and I'll drag my mouse down this antenna and as you see here it doesn't work too well because my brush was a little too large there so I'm gonna undo that and try again by reducing the size of the brush. I'm also gonna zoom in a little bit as well. Now let's get that tool, drop the brush down and that's much better. If you have a problem with the tool going into regions that you don't want don't forget this, reduce the size of the brush. The size of the brush is in essence the tolerance for this tool. Now sometimes it's a little sluggish because it's constantly evaluating and what I'm gonna do now is I'm going to deselect this now and I'm going to turn on auto enhance and I'm going to increase the size of my brush so we can see what it looks like when we get into this region here. So I'm going to click and drag my mouse just to grab this area and you see we have a nice line here although it did go into this region a little bit uh too much. So once again it's a little bit of an experimentation and you really just have to get used to using the correct size of the brush and also not moving your mouse a little too fast as I'm doing here to demonstrate how this tool works for you. So Photoshop has this new tool once again, it's called the quick selection tool and it can help you to uh more easily grab a large portions of uh your image like most of the tools though it's only a start and you're still gonna have to put a little elbow grease in there to clean up the rest of the stuff on your own. So in effect it's really what we really want because we don't want this to be too easy or then everybody would be able to do it and most of us would be out of a job.
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop CS3 |
| Author: | Dwayne Ferguson |
| SKU: | 33782 |
| ISBN: | 1-933736-98-4 |
| Release Date: | 2007-08-02 |
| Duration: | 9 hrs / 161 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |