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Manually Select and Mask

Lesson 73 from: Adobe Photoshop: The Complete Guide Bootcamp

Ben Willmore

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Lesson Info

73. Manually Select and Mask

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Class Trailer
1

Introduction To Adobe Photoshop

04:05
2

Bridge vs. Lightroom

06:39
3

Tour of Photoshop Interface

18:21
4

Overview of Bridge Workspace

07:42
5

Overview of Lightroom Workspace

11:21
6

Lightroom Preferences - Saving Documents

08:19
7

How To Use Camera Raw in Adobe Photoshop 2020

05:10
8

Overview of Basic Adjustment Sliders

13:09
9

Developing Raw Images

30:33
10

Editing with the Effects and HLS Tabs

09:12
11

How to Save Images

03:37
12

Using the Transform Tool

04:48
13

Making Selections in Adobe Photoshop 2020

06:03
14

Selection Tools

05:55
15

Combining Selection Tools

07:37
16

Using Automated Selection Tools

17:34
17

Quick Mask Mode

05:07
18

Select Menu Essentials

21:28
19

Using Layers in Adobe Photoshop 2020

13:00
20

Align Active Layers

07:29
21

Creating a New Layer

06:15
22

Creating a Clipping Mask

03:02
23

Using Effects on Layers

11:24
24

Using Adjustment Layers

16:44
25

Using the Shape Tool

04:39
26

Create a Layer Mask Using the Selection Tool

04:39
27

Masking Multiple Images Together

15:15
28

Using Layer Masks to Remove People

10:50
29

Using Layer Masks to Replace Sky

10:04
30

Adding Texture to Images

09:11
31

Layering to Create Realistic Depth

05:35
32

Adjustment Layers in Adobe Photoshop 2020

05:29
33

Optimizing Grayscale with Levels

10:59
34

Adjusting Levels with a Histogram

03:37
35

Understanding Curves

06:18
36

Editing an Image Using Curves

18:41
37

Editing with Shadows/Highlights Adjustment

07:19
38

Dodge and Burn Using Quick Mask Mode

07:14
39

Editing with Blending Modes

08:04
40

Color Theory

05:59
41

Curves for Color

16:52
42

Hue and Saturation Adjustments

08:59
43

Isolating Colors Using Hue/Saturation Adjustment

13:33
44

Match Colors Using Numbers

16:59
45

Adjusting Skin Tones

05:25
46

Retouching Essentials In Adobe Camera Raw

10:52
47

Retouching with the Spot Healing Brush

07:53
48

Retouching with the Clone Stamp

06:51
49

Retouching with the Healing Brush

04:34
50

Retouching Using Multiple Retouching Tools

13:07
51

Extending an Edge with Content Aware

03:42
52

Clone Between Documents

13:19
53

Crop Tool

10:07
54

Frame Tool

02:59
55

Eye Dropper and Color Sampler Tools

08:14
56

Paint Brush Tools

13:33
57

History Brush Tool

06:27
58

Eraser and Gradient Tools

03:06
59

Brush Flow and Opacity Settings

04:17
60

Blur and Shape Tools

11:06
61

Dissolve Mode

09:24
62

Multiply Mode

15:29
63

Screen Mode

14:08
64

Hard Light Mode

14:54
65

Hue, Saturation, and Color Modes

11:31
66

Smart Filters

11:32
67

High Pass Filter

13:40
68

Blur Filter

05:59
69

Filter Gallery

07:42
70

Adaptive Wide Angle Filter

04:43
71

Combing Filters and Features

04:45
72

Select and Mask

20:04
73

Manually Select and Mask

08:08
74

Creating a Clean Background

21:19
75

Changing the Background

13:34
76

Smart Object Overview

08:37
77

Nested Smart Objects

09:55
78

Scale and Warp Smart Objects

09:08
79

Replace Contents

06:55
80

Raw Smart Objects

10:20
81

Multiple Instances of a Smart Object

12:59
82

Creating a Mockup Using Smart Objects

05:42
83

Panoramas

13:15
84

HDR

11:20
85

Focus Stacking

04:02
86

Time-lapse

11:18
87

Light Painting Composite

08:05
88

Remove Moire Patterns

06:11
89

Remove Similar Objects At Once

09:52
90

Remove Objects Across an Entire Image

05:46
91

Replace a Repeating Pattern

06:50
92

Clone from Multiple Areas Using the Clone Source Panel

10:27
93

Remove an Object with a Complex Background

07:49
94

Frequency Separation to Remove Staining and Blemishes

12:27
95

Warping

11:03
96

Liquify

14:02
97

Puppet Warp

12:52
98

Displacement Map

10:36
99

Polar Coordinates

07:19
100

Organize Your Layers

11:02
101

Layer Styles: Bevel and Emboss

02:59
102

Layer Style: Knockout Deep

12:34
103

Blending Options: Blend if

13:18
104

Blending Options: Colorize Black and White Image

06:27
105

Layer Comps

08:30
106

Black-Only Shadows

06:07
107

Create a Content Aware Fill Action

08:46
108

Create a Desaturate Edges Action

07:42
109

Create an Antique Color Action

13:52
110

Create a Contour Map Action

10:20
111

Faux Sunset Action

07:20
112

Photo Credit Action

05:54
113

Create Sharable Actions

07:31
114

Common Troubleshooting Issues Part 1

10:23
115

Common Troubleshooting Issues Part 2

07:57
116

Image Compatibility with Lightroom

03:29
117

Scratch Disk Is Full

06:02
118

Preview Thumbnail

02:10

Lesson Info

Manually Select and Mask

Let's do this with other images. Let's try it with a complex tree. So here I have a background to put this on, so I'm gonna choose tools. Photoshopped load files into Photoshopped layers. I'll zoom up with command zero, and usually I had pre adjust these images like this one. You can't even see it, but there's a draft in there. Ah, and so I would usually optimize the picture. I'm just not spending the time to do that, because I'm trying to concentrate on the masking. No, that's the tough part now, since I use load files into Photoshopped layers. If you look at my Layers panel, I have two layers. If I hide the top layer, that's what I want is my new background, and this was taken on a cruise ship, so there's a tiny little things sticking out over here on the side. It's like the mystery thing, but I think that'll work fine. We might have to retouch out that one piece to start this. I want to again select the subject of the photograph, and I could go to the select menu into subject and se...

e what it does. But I think with something that is complicated. If I type of letter Q. It's not very good, so I'm not even gonna let it do select subject. I'm gonna do it myself, and all I'm gonna do is go to the left side of my screen and I'm gonna grab the quick selection tool with the quick selections will active. I'm in a pain across the bottom portion of my image. I'll just click here and start to drag towards the right and I'll make sure that I never get any over spray on an area that I don't want selected. So I'm not gonna paint anywhere where the sky would be. I might get a smaller brush so that I could paint up the trunk of the tree, But I'm gonna try not to touch any of those areas where you see the sky stick through. So it's kind of a clean spot coming this way. And then it seemed to grab most of the tree. Well, that will be good enough. It's not necessarily ideal, but it's good enough we went. Most of the work toe happen here in selected mask because Photoshopped really needs to take control. So I'm gonna choose selected mask now. It remembers the last settings I used for the preview and therefore the last time I had it set toe on layers. But I don't usually use that. It's my starting point. I usually use overlay because I find it to be easier to understand what's happening red indicating the area that is not selected. And then what I need to do is just grab that second tool from the top. It's already active. That's known as they're fine edge brush, and I'm gonna paint on any area where the tree is covered with red. So right here, covered with red. And as I paint, it's changing my end result because I'm getting it control. But I'm trying to go for any portion with a tree is covered in red because anything covered with red is thought of as something it should be thrown away. And so right now it's confused and it things roll. That stuff sticking into the red should be thrown away, and therefore I'm not going to give you anywhere near as good of an end result. If you make me think that the color of tree should be trashed so by covering up those areas. They're covered in bread. I'm at least making it. So the area covered in red is much closer to what should be thrown away. All right, next, after I've covered up those areas, I'm gonna look for areas where the sky is not covered in red. Well, that's where I need to give Futter shop control, because now wherever it is I paint, it's gonna compare where I've painted to what's covered in red, and if it's similar to it, it's gonna put red on it. If instead it's similar to what doesn't have read on it, it will prevent the red from applying. So I'm just looking for anywhere where I can see a hint to the background and I'm gonna paint over it. That gives Photoshopped control of those areas on, and it's okay if it's a big area, might be 3/ of the tree. But if there's a blatant area the tree where there's absolutely no hint of the background showing through, then don't paint on it because you're gonna be able to give Photoshopped a better chance of doing a good job. So that area to the right of Warren painting right now, I'm only gonna extend to where I can see hints of sky. I'm not gonna paint across the middle of it because then Photoshopped has control over it. And I need to have a large enough area where Photoshopped doesn't have control. That tells it what should be deleted in what she be kept. The area that has red on it is what it thinks should be deleted area where I have not painted it all and didn't have read on it is what it thinks should be kept. And I'm just looking for hints of the background where it needs control. Maybe right there. I can't tell if that's a blue sky right there or not. But if I think it could be, I want to click on it now. At this point, let's see where I've given Feder Shop Control. To make sure we get on enough, I'm gonna turn on the check box near my upper left called show edge. And now the areas that have no red on it is where Photoshopped has control are. And I just got to decide if there's some other areas where I should give it control over what's happening. Sometimes you end up with these little chunks like this, and if those little chunks are sitting on top of what you're trying to delete, then get out of it because Photoshopped needs control or, if you're subject, extends out into that outer red zone, overlaps it somewhere. Then you want to give Photoshopped control. Takes a little while to get used to it, but once you're used to it, it's pretty straightforward. It looks to me like I didn't bring up the radius slider most the time I have that up at least two, which gives it control at least two pixels all the way around. But that's looking pretty good. I don't think I see any blue underneath those little pieces or those, all right that I could turn off the show as check box. Then I come over here and change my view, and this is when I'll probably start feeling it on layers so I can see it with our new background. And that's when I can also start zooming up and being a little more critical of it. And let's see and don't look bad to my eye. Just yell out If you see any problem. Okay, Yeah, to me, it doesn't look bad now. If there are any issues where you see hints of the old background clinging, you'll see it as like we saw in the bird example where the edges just look like if you had an old let's say, overcast sky, just some white ish tinge on the edge. Remember, you do have decontaminate colors and that will shift the color of things. I'll usually experiment with that. Even if I didn't notice an issue because sometimes it can improve things, let's turn it on and see what happens. Okay, that things were getting much darker, but I also noticed there's feels to be less detail, less variation and brightness like if you look down here, it's just things were getting thick, so I don't know. I like it, but you can remember lower it down and then bring it up just a little bit of time to see if it's helpful. And I think maybe just a little bit of it. If I don't notice any big issues, then I click OK,

Class Materials

Bonus Materials with Purchase

Lessons 1 - 6 - Handbook 1: Introduction to Adobe Photoshop
Lessons 7 - 12 - Handbook 2: How to Use Camera Raw
Lessons 13 - 18 - Handbook 3: Making Selections
Lessons 19 - 24 - Handbook 4: Using Layers
Lessons 25 - 30 - Handbook 5: Using Layer Masks
Lessons 31 - 38 - Handbook 6: Using Adjustment Layers
Lessons 39 - 44 - Handbook 7: Color Theory
Lessons 45 - 51 - Handbook 8: Retouching Essentials
Lessons 52 - 59 - Handbook 9: Tools Panel
Lessons 60 - 64 - Handbook 10: Layer Blending Modes
Lessons 65 - 70 - Handbook 11: How to Use Filters
Lessons 71 - 74 - Handbook 12: Advanced Masks
Lessons 75 - 81 - Handbook 13: Using Smart Objects
Lessons 82 - 86 - Handbook 14: Photography for Photoshop
Lessons 87 - 93 - Handbook 15: Advanced Photo Retouching
Lessons 94 - 98 - Handbook 16: Warp, Blend, Liquify
Lessons 99 - 105 - Handbook 17: Advanced Layers
Lessons 106 - 112 - Handbook 18: Actions
Lessons 113 - 117 - Handbook 19: Troubleshooting Issues
Practice Images 1: Introduction to Adobe Photoshop
Practice Images 2: How to Use Camera Raw
Practice Images 3: Making Selections
Practice Images 4: Using Layers
Practice Images 5: Using Layer Masks
Practice Images 6: Using Adjustment Layers
Practice Images 7: Color Theory
Practice Images 8: Retouching Essentials
Practice Images 9: Tools Panel
Practice Images 10: Layer Blending Modes
Practice Images 11: How to Use Filters
Practice Images 12: Advanced Masks
Practice Images 13: Using Smart Objects
Practice Images 14: Photography for Photoshop
Practice Images 15: Advanced Photo Retouching
Practice Images 16: Warp, Blend, Liquify
Practice Images 17: Advanced Layers
Practice Images 18: Actions
Practice Images 19: Troubleshooting Issues

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Highly recommended if you want to take your Photoshop skills to the next level. Ben Willmore is clear, concise, and professional. He also has a good speaking voice that is not distracting but also keeps you engaged. Lastly, I would recommend that as you become more advanced, increasing the speed of the video (one of the options given on the menu)...especially if you've gone through the course once before and maybe want to watch it again. The double speed is very efficient as you become more advanced in Photoshop. Thanks for the help Ben!

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