This ability is especially useful when you want to work with a picture’s background, but selecting the background directly would be much harder than selecting the subject. Use Invert Selection (Ctrl+Shift+I) to make the selected parts of an image unselected and vice versa.
However, often blurring will save you from minor imprecisions in a selection. Important note: if the Blur is too high, then the selection loses its precision and any sharp edges become rounded, and in the extreme case, it can become impossible to make a selection, especially if the selection size in pixels is small. A higher Blur means a smoother transition between the selected and unselected parts of the picture. It sets how sharp the selection edges will be. )Īnother setting that’s often used when you’re working with selections is Blur. (To turn on this mode temporarily no matter what mode you’re in, hold down Ctrl and Shift. You can think of Intersection as a cookie-cutter, or as the inverse of Remove from Selection.
Remove from Selection mode, on the other hand, eats into your existing selection.(To turn on this mode temporarily no matter what mode you’re in, hold down Shift. With Add to Selection mode, you can add an area to the one you’ve already selected.Normal mode is made for the initial simple selection of a part of a photo.To switch to a different selection mode, click its icon or use the Shift, Ctrl, etc. You’ll find these modes above the other settings for each selection tool. We’ll get back to these at the end of the article.Īmong the most important settings is the choice of selection modes. The exception is the Refine Selection controls, which affect the current selection. Note that these settings only affect future work with the selection tools-they don’t change the existing selection. When you activate one of these tools, several settings appear in the side panel. There are several tools you can use to select specific parts of a photo:Įach is a good fit for a different kind of edits.
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