All language subtitles for 5. Refining Selections Update The New Photoshop 2015.5 Selection and Masking Space

Since I've launched the graphic design course Adobes actually made some changes that affects this tutorial

that you're watching.

So what I want to do is two things.

First I want to show you the difference.

Specifically the selecting mask options that they've now added.

And I also want to show you where to find all of the changes that Adobe has made and how to stay current

with that.

So the first things first is let's jump over here to this Creative Cloud icon and we click on apps and

we can see all the different applications we have installed.

We can see which version we have so this one that I've updated or upgraded to is 2015 and a half we

click on View tutorials which will launch your browser and bring you here to the Adobe Photoshop landing

page.

We can click on the what's new and that's going to bring you to this page where you can see chronologically

all the changes that have happened.

So there's a lot of really cool things you definitely need to check out.

But specifically what I want to show you is a selection in masking space.

So if I click on see how it works you can actually check out this page and there's a much more in-depth

tutorial if you learn all the bells and whistles.

But what I want to show you is for some of you who have the older applications older software if you

go to refine your mask and your selection when I have the kid the little hit the letter M and I've got

my rectangular marquee which in my options bar is going to bring up the select and mask option.

Now on the older versions of Photoshop you'll probably still see the refined edge if you haven't upgraded

yet.

So I've kind of shown you how to do that in the last video.

Now I want to show you the new selected mask's space so what I'm going to do is go ahead and click on

select and mask and it opens up kind of a new window where we've got some options on the left hand side

.

We've got this brush here where we can add more to our selection.

We've got this brush below where we can refine or selection and then a few other options which honestly

I don't I haven't had to use too much yet.

So what I want to show you what's really powerful is over here in the view mode we have this onion skin

mode and they still have the other options that we had in the refined mask where we you know we could

put the layer on black or white and really get a feel for what's going on but this onion skin mode is

great because you can see the layers below.

And I can control the transparency as well I can scrub it to the left all the way to the right to control

what I'm seeing right now.

It's 100 percent opaque so I'm I'm seeing my selection and I'm not really seeing anything else.

I'm not releasing the Bolena but I can back this up just a little bit and I'll notice that I'm actually

missing a little bit of the hair here which I wouldn't notice if I was just looking at the 100 percent

mask.

Someone to dial that down a little bit and look up here and choose my quick selection brush and I just

basically click just once right in there click once right in there and it pretty much does a good job

of adding in that piece that I missed.

Now the next thing I want to do is jump over here and click my refined brush and it's gotten a lot better

and this refined selection or this selecting mask box.

So as I click and drag Photoshop up does an incredible job of finding all these little stray hairs and

I just kind of click a couple times over here click and drag over here maybe a little bit down here

and if I accidentally get too much across the top of his head right here those white highlights blow

out and actually looks like it's transparent but really we know that that shouldn't be so all I do is

hit the old key and then kind of brush over that a little get a little bit.

And again I'm using the refined brush tool over here.

And then if I drag this back up to 100 percent you can see I've got a really good selection of still

a couple of pieces down here if I wanted to be really picky about it.

But I can refine that a little bit more.

And then once I've got it just how I want it I can come back over here and if I need to.

Now right now I'm using an image I'm kind of cheating because the hair is already a pretty light background

so it makes it pretty easy.

But if you've got a difficult background you can use some of these options to get a better selection

.

So whether you need to smooth it out maybe feather it a little bit or even add a lot of contrast that

might help get a better selection against whatever background you have.

Or you could even shift the edge of scrubs all the way to the left you can see that it sucks.

That image that selection in or fray I scribble away the right it really blows it out and gives it a

lot more space around my selection.

But I found that Photoshop does a really good job right out of the box with the default settings for

most images.

So these options are there to play with.

But again I would start with just the defaults and see how it does.

Now once you've got that just how you want it if you just see this right here output settings when clicked

a little troll down arrow and we control exactly how this is going to be exporting our layer.

You might need to click on decontaminate colors.

Now where this would come in handy in this case I've had a black and white photo so I really don't need

to use it too much but it did clean up this hair a little bit.

So I had a little bit of white coming through.

And let's say this were shot on a green screen or some other setting maybe there's a red light and there's

some some color cast under the edges here.

If I click to decontaminate colors it'll help really knock out those edges in a way that you won't have

that issue does a pretty good job with that.

Now once you've done that we'll go ahead and click on how you want to spit this out.

Now I typically would just leave this as well.

Now that I click decontaminate colors I don't have the option to keep as a layer mask which is typically

how I would keep it since I click on that.

It's great that I was going to make a new layer with my mask.

And the reason why.

Let me go and click OK because Photoshop has actually adjusted the colors around the edge of this photo

so it's actually manipulated the photo and it saves the original just in case I'm not happy with it

.

If I ever need to go back to it.

So anyway hope it helps and I hope that clears some things up for you.

I just want to take the time real quick to say thank you so much for signing up for this course.

I hope you're learning a ton and I'm going to do my best to keep us updated as current as possible.

If you ever come across any other changes like this that Adobe has made please let me know.

Feel free to hit me up on the Q&A or direct message through the to platform.

I try to get back to everybody within 24 hours when I can.

Again thank you so much for taking the time to join this class and let me know if you have questions

or if you need any help or Especially if anything has changed.

All right good luck.

And here we go.