All language subtitles for 3. Refining Selections

All right once you've finished cutting out your photo of yourself for whatever photo you're working

with makes you do a quick look one more time is to make sure we've got everything selected.

So for example if I look at this it looks good at the first pass.

But as I zoom in here I can see that I forgot to cut out the part around the trigger here so that the

letter P and I click and drag just do a quick little selection here to grab what I forgot to select

here.

Am going to add to that selection down here there's a couple of more spots where I forgot to cut out

the back.

And now nobody probably would have noticed this one because the same color gray as the stock here it

would be a minimal mistake but I would know and I'd like to make sure that I do things as close to perfect

as I can.

So I'm going to go ahead and clean this up real quick.

You know I've noticed I've got multiple paths going on here but I like my path.

It's all under the same work path layer.

So what I can do is command click and now select that section as well as these down here with those

selected to make sure I'm on the right layer and I'll hit the delete key to delete those pixels I command

the de-select and now and zoom out I see that looks pretty good and I think I get everything else let

me look through the suspenders here you know nobody probably noticed this one at all but I could come

in here and clean that up just to make sure that there is nowhere in this photo that accidentally sticks

out that time I see it command return.

And it made my selection Amadis letter to the delete key and now de-select my selection there pervert

.

OK so now I'm confident that no matter what background I put this on it's going to look good.

And one way to tell before you actually put it into a scene I can hit command and click on the new layer

icon to put a new layer below it.

And I'm just going to click up here my color swatch area and let's let's do a bright color pretty of

noxious green mesh that layer selected.

And now since I selected that it's my foreground color so to fill with foreground it's alt delete or

come up here to edit fill and choose that foreground color as an option.

OK so now I've got that Greenfeld So now I can come back through one more time and just kind of make

sure that the selection is looking good for the most part you know everything's looking pretty good

here.

I don't see anything that I've forgotten.

You know what there's a couple of things right there.

And this again this would probably not matter and this is where you can spend all day long so you really

have to choose.

How precise do you want to make your selections.

But that shoelace their command return.

Now if I hit delete right now I would just be deleting from the green layer.

I want to make sure that I've selected the layer with my photo.

I delete and now just what's within that selection gets deleted.

Same thing over here on this part of the shoe I can come through.

Highlight that and again honestly like this is the way it went to press.

I miss these little shoelace things here if we looked at that original poster I showed you it.

You wouldn't even notice because the feet are on the ground and it's dark and nobody is going to see

that.

But again you want to get in the habit of doing as good of a job as you can.

Right.

You want to make a mistake and have it be an expensive mistake for of to reprint something because they

did notice.

So.

All right.

Now that we've got that selected let's work on a couple of techniques here to help blend this into the

background.

Well for starters let's look at the edges here because we use that pen to a method.

This Edge is super crisp and super hard.

Now that's fine but in reality it's not going to be a crisp image it's going to have a little bit of

a blur to it.

So there's a lot of ways we can do this.

Like I've said before and Photoshop has 100 ways to do the same thing.

One of which if I command click on this thumbnail here I get my selection back I get the letter M to

get my marching ants marquee to a rectangular marquee tool.

And with that selected appear I get this refined edge button click on that once my view mode changes

to it's kind of sad to see so I'll put it on black.

I can see the edge is better here or click out.

And now I can smooth the edges here and it's kind of tough to see but you can see that green bleeding

through from behind.

So it's smoothing out those edges and you can feather the edges too.

Me.

And by feathering out the images are that I'm sorry the edges here.

You can see that my selection's going to be pretty soft and blurry.

I can also shift the edge in a little bit maybe change my feather a little bit so you can really work

with that edge.

If I hit OK it's going to combine that back to a selection.

So if I hit command J I can jump cut that new one to layer in front.

I'll turn off the eyeball here and now when I zoom in.

It went from having a very crisp hard edge to now kind of a blurred edge which depending on where where

you're working that might be great.

But another and other aspects are in other areas it might be too much it might cut in more than I wanted

it to.

So that's where you're going to play with a live.

I'm going to turn that off actually.

Let's zoom in real quick.

I'll turn the layer below.

And you can see how much crisper that edge is.

Especially right here.

OK so another way to work and this is the way that I typically work I'll grab my blurred tool.

So over here on the menu bar on the left kind of midway down I bet the blurred tool set my strength

pretty high maybe 85 and then I'll just paint over the edges just the edges not in further than just

the edges because that I can control what blurs and what doesn't.

So what I'm trying to do is just soften up these edges a little bit to help blended in with the background

.

And so I can control how much gets applied and sometimes it just needs a little bit just to sell the

deal.

And now here's another thing as humans right we're a little more organic.

So we're going to have a little bit more of a softer edge than hard metals and machinery type things

so look in nature look at real life and just get an idea for what should be crisp like this.

This rifle image here the buttstock versus like his clothing his clothing is going to have a softer

feel to it.

So go through your edges of the photo you just did and use this blurry tool and kind of soften up those

images.

I'm sorry.

Those edges to help really convince that this selection belongs in the new background.

So go ahead take your time go through and just brush up on the edges of what my blurry tool selected

.

I'm just clicking and dragging over the edge here make sure you've got that once layer selected.

Because here's the deal if I'm selected a layer below it and I'm painting.

You're not going to see any difference or anything happening because you're actually targeting that

layer below.

So make sure you've got the right layer selected and then soften up those edges again.

And you can take as much time as you needed to but just do enough to really seal the effect and once

you get that done we'll go ahead and dive into the next video.