Lynda.com Photoshop CS4 Selections In Depth

Author(s): Jan Kabili | Duration (hr:min): 03:51 | Language: English | 1DVD | Released on: 7/14/2009 | Exercise files: Yes | Size : 682MB

Description
Choosing the right selection tools for the job and using those tools effectively are among the most important skills for Photoshop users. In Photoshop CS4: Selections in Depth, senior trainer and photographer Jan Kabili goes deep into the subject, showing the best practices for making and working with selections. Jan walks through the manual and automatic selection methods in Photoshop and offers pointers on choosing the most effective selection methods for an image. She explains the underlying relationship between selections and alpha channels, and shows how to fine-tune selections to get the desired results. Exercise files accompany the course.
Topics include:

* Selecting manually with the Marquee, Lasso, and Pen tools
* Saving time with automatic selection methods like the Quick Selection tool and the Magic Wand tool
* Fine-tuning selections with Refine Edge
* Working with selections in Quick Mask mode
* Moving, modifying, and combining selections
* Saving selections as alpha channels
* Making complex selections from color channels
* Using the Background Eraser tool to replace a background
* Installing and using the legacy Extract plug-in to isolate an object from its background


Table Of Contents
Introduction
Welcome
Using the exercise files

1. Selection Basics
Why select?
What is a selection?
Deselecting and reselecting
Hiding a selection boundary
Using the Select All command

2. Manual Selection Methods
Using the Rectangular Marquee tool
Using the Elliptical Marquee tool
Drawing freehand selections with the Lasso tool
Selecting straight edges with the Polygonal Lasso tool
Selecting with the Pen tool and paths
Making selections from shapes

3. Automatic Selection Methods
Using the Quick Selection tool
Using the Magic Wand tool
Working with the Color Range feature
Selecting edges with the Magnetic Lasso tool
Selecting layer transparency
Selecting image luminosity

4. Modifying Selections
Moving selections
Transforming selections
Using contextual commands for transformation
Inverting selections
Anti-aliasing selections
Feathering selections
Fine-tuning selections in Refine Edge

5. Saving and Loading Selections
Saving selections
Loading and modifying saved selections
Saving selections to other images
Creating layer masks from selections
Loading selections from layer masks

6. Combining and Extending Selections
Adding, subtracting, and intersecting selections
Combining selections to build a graphic
Expanding selections with Grow and Similar

7. Working in Quick Mask Mode
Cleaning up selections in Quick Mask
Creating selections from scratch in Quick Mask
Changing Quick Mask options
Varying edge softness in Quick Mask
Filtering selections in Quick Mask
Making Step and Repeat selections in Quick Mask

8. Complex Selections
Making selections from color channels
Working with the Background Eraser tool
Pasting into selections
Installing the legacy Extract filter
Using the Extract filter

Conclusion
Goodbye


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