Multiplicity tutorial (25 easy steps) Ultimate Hair Edge Masking Technique in Photoshop - www.varis.com. Photoshop Workbench 169: Selecting Difficult Subjects Like Fur And Hair. Remove Background From Difficult Hair Selections in Photoshop. De-Aging in Photoshop - Remove Those Wrinkles! The Magic Wand Tool - Photoshop Selections. Written by Steve Patterson. The Magic Wand Tool, known simply as the Magic Wand, is one of the oldest selection tools in Photoshop. Unlike other selection tools that select pixels in an image based on shapes or by detecting object edges, the Magic Wand selects pixels based on tone and color. Many people tend to get frustrated with the Magic Wand (giving it the unfortunate nickname "tragic wand") because it can sometimes seem like it’s impossible to control which pixels the tool selects.
In this tutorial, we’re going to look beyond the magic, discover how the wand really works, and learn to recognize the situations that this ancient but still extremely useful selection tool was designed for. Selecting The Magic Wand If you’re using Photoshop CS2 or earlier, you can select the Magic Wand simply by clicking on its icon in the Tools palette. The Magic Wand is nested behind the Quick Selection Tool in Photoshop CS3 and later.
The “Magic” Behind The Wand Tolerance Setting the Tolerance value to 0. Content Aware Fill Tutorial. Written by Steve Patterson. In a previous tutorial, we looked at Photoshop CS5′s upgraded Spot Healing Brush with its brand new Content-Aware Healing option that lets Photoshop examine the actual contents of your image as it tries to figure out the best way to remove or repair the damaged or unwanted area you’ve clicked on. This time, we look at another new feature in Photoshop CS5 – Content-Aware Fill. It’s no coincidence that both of these new features share similar names, since they do pretty much the same thing. The main difference is in how we use them. Both features let Photoshop analyze the contents of the image to figure out what the photo would have looked like if the unwanted object or area had never been there.
Here’s a photo that suffers from a couple of distracting elements, especially the large wooden post blocking the view of the mountains above the Visitor Center sign: A nice view of the mountain. Working on a copy of the image to protect the original. You May Also Like... Clipping Masks Tutorial. Written by Steve Patterson. In this tutorial, I show you how to use clipping masks in Photoshop to show and hide different parts of a layer and fit images into shapes!
We'll learn the basics of how to create a clipping mask, and we'll explore the idea behind them in more detail so that by the end of this lesson, you'll have a solid grasp on how clipping masks work. I'll be using Photoshop CC but everything is fully compatible with Photoshop CS6 and earlier. Let's get started! What Are Clipping Masks? Clipping masks in Photoshop are a powerful way to control the visibility of a layer. To create a clipping mask, we need two layers. Where the bottom layer contains actual content (pixels, shapes, or type), the content on the layer above it is visible. Download this tutorial as a print-ready PDF! How A Clipping Mask Works To really make sense of clipping masks, we first need to understand the difference between content and transparency on a layer. The original image. Selecting the top layer.