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hi welcome back to the Photo shop , training Channel I'm Mrs. Ramirez in , this video I'm going to show you how to , make cutouts using the select and mask , workstation Photo shop you can think of , this Photoshoptutorial as a mini crash , course on selected masks but also as an , explanation of my masking workflow you , will learn what all the tools and , sliders in a selected mask work space do , and how to use them properly this , tutorial was inspired by the comments in , my making white backgrounds video a lot , of people mention how much they learn , from my masking workflow and that they , understood selected masks much better by , how I explained it so Figured that , would expand on that video and do a , complete explanation on selected masks , by the way'll place a link right below , in the description in case you want to , watch that making white backgrounds , video okay let's get started we're going , to work with this document that contains , two layers we have this background , element and this foreground element and , we're of course going to remove the , background so that it looks like the , mo delis on this field now before we go , any further want to address a question , that'm sure will come up it always , comes up with masking tutorial sand that , is why aim using a flat color , background and not something with a busy , background the answer is because it's , easier that way much like movie , director will use green screen to place , actors in a different background in , compositing and photography you should , use a solid background when you shoot , your model understand that this is not , always possible sometimes you have to , work with what the client gives you and , if that'st he case then you have to use , alternate techniques and understand that , you won't be able to get a perfect , selection having said that I do have a , video where show you couple , techniques that you can use to extract , hair from busy background sand I'll , place a link right below in the , description for that video in case , you're interested in that but anyway I'm , internship CC and for this tutorial , we're going to use the selected masks , work space to remove the background now , don'worry if you're in an older , version of Photocopy lot of the , principles are the same you're just , going to be in a different tool so , let me quickly show you what to do if , you're in Photo shop C's or older first , use the quick selection tool to make a , selection around your main subject once , we have a selection active you're going , to sea button titled refine edge if , you're in Phototropic and you want to , get to the old refine edge dialog you , can hold shift going to select and then , click on select and mask this will only , work if you have a selection or a layer , mask active and this brings up the old , refine edge and these are the different , tools that you can use to refine this , selection remember that all these , options are going to be available in the , selected mask work space in Phototropic , so when I talk about those features in , CC you can apply that information to , this old dialog box then by the way if , you're in Phototropic and you prefer , the old refine edge this is how you get , it let me know that in the comments , below if you prefer this old dialog box , I prefer the new one and hopefully after , this video you'll also prefer the new , one but anyway'm gonna press cancel , for now and I'going to show you what , to do when you're in Phototropic and , newer I'm going to press caroled command , D to deselect and we're gonna start from , scratch if you're a Phototropic user , what you need to do first is make a , selection as you saw you can start , making as election by using the quick , selection tool or you can just simply , click on selected masks this is going to , get us into the selected mask work space , and the first thing that I want you to , notice is that we are currently in the , onion skinning mode which allows you to , see the original background and the , selected areas the selected areas are , shown At% right now nothing is , showing because we haven't selected , anything and of course at 0%we see the , original background so I just leave it , at W%for now and on the left hand side , we have the selection tools the tool on , the very top is the quick selection tool , and it works just like the regular quick , selection tool you can click and drag to , make a selection around the object that , you want to select , or you can use Adobe'artificial , intelligence Adobe sense to analyze the , image and make as election and you can , do so by simply clicking on select , subject this feature uses machine , learning technology and it'll try to , determine the subject of the image and , notice that it did a really good job in , selecting this woman if Increase the , transparency you can see that we'vie , already done a fantastic job on masking , her out , obviously the selection is not perfect , but we can now refine it so what I'm , gonna do is I'm gonna change the view to , something else we can select black which , simply Mensa black background or on , white which again simply means a white , background or instead can select , overlay which lets me choose the color , of the background by default the color , is red but I'm going to select a dark , gray color and press I'm also going , to increase the opacity to% , I can also indicate where to apply the , gray overlay in the masked areas in , other words the areas that are not , selected or in the selected areas in , this case it makes much more sense to , use masked areas then I can zoom in by , using the zoom too land I can continue , to refine the selection so I need to , find areas like in-between her arms to , deselect and I can do that by using the , quick selection tool and either clicking , on this button to subtract or holding , alt option on the Mac and clicking and , dragging to subtract then I'gonna , reduce the size of the brush so I'm , gonna go and reduce it down to about W , pixels then I'm gonna hold alt option on , the Mac and click and drag to subtract , this area is quite difficult so instead , I'm going to use the brush tool and I'm , just gonna click and drag to paint those , pixels away and I'gonna do so by , holding alt option on the Mac to , subtract those pixels and again I don't , have to be a hundred percent precise yet , and then you can find other similar , areas to correct so once again'm gonna , go and select the quick selection tool , and I'm going to use the left bracket , key on the keyboard to make the brush , smaller you could also use , you saw the slider but I like using the , bracket keys better then I'm gonna hold , alt option Ina Mac and click and drag , to subtract from that selection could , also use either the lasso tool to , freehand selection so if I hold alt , option on the Mac and click and drag to , draw selection I can subtract or I can , use the polygonal lasso tool hold alt , option on the Mac click and click again , to create a selection with as many sizes , you need when you close the selection it , will subtract that area from the mask so , I can click to draw this line click , again to create another point and I'm , just clicking as I create points and , when complete the selection as I'm , holding alt you'll notice that it will , subtract those pixels hold the space bar , click and drag to pan and look for , another area to refine in the polygonal , lasso tool works great in areas like , this one so I'going to hold alt click , click again click one more time and when , I close the selection it will subtract , that area from the ma skin this line , here in between our fingers I'm just , going to use the brush tool and'm just , gonna zoom in by pressing the Z key then , press the Key again and hold alt , option on the Mac and click and drag to , subtract those pixel sin between our , finger and I'll double click on the hand , tool to fit the image to screen and , again you can spend aw hole lot of time , fine-tuning the image but that's not , really what this tutorial is about so , we'll move on we're gonna work with the , panels on the right hand side to refine , the selection'm not gonna worry about , the hair for now and I'm just gonna go , down the list and explain what , everything does first and then I'll , actually apply the adjustments that , want to make so edge detection what is , edge detection if Franked the , radius you can see the edge of the , selection changing but you really don't , know what's going on and to show you how , the edge detection works I'm going to , enable show edge but notice that it's , grayed out to enable Ito first need to , select the refine edge brush tool then I , can comeback and check show edge , nothing happens but if I increase the , radius you're gonna see an outline of , tutorship is trying to analyze and , select so edge detection allows you to , analyze an edge in this case two pixel , edge and Icahn have an edge much larger , than that a W pixel edge if Disable , show edge you can see how Photo shop now , that's are ally good job with the hair , and in some cases outdoes't do a good , job like under our hand her eat the , bottom it destroys that part so you have , to fine-tune the radius of the edge also , you have smart radius notice that right , now we have A's pixel edge around the , entire selected subject but if I select , smart radius notice now how we have an , edge that is thicker in some area sand , thinner in other areas this isotope , trying to determine what the content is , in an areas like hair it creates a , thicker edge and in straight edge areas , like on her body here it creates a , thinner edge and to be clear inside of , this border this is where the edge , refinement occurs so the thicker the , edge the more that Photo shop analyzes to , remove the foreground from the , background in this case I don't want to , use either the smart radius or the edge , radius so I'going to bring this down , to zero and I'm going to disable show , edge instead I'm just gonna work with , the global refinement sand to show you , what they do first'm going to change , the view to black and white and I'm , gonna zoom in by selecting the zoom tool , into this area here remember this is our , layer mask black hides in white reveals , anything a black is hidden anything in , white will sh owlet's start with a , smooth slider smooth allows you to , smooth the edge so notice how we have a , Jag edge watch what happens when I , increase the smooth see how smoothies , the edges out so you ha veto determine a , good smooth setting for your particular , image , then we have feather feathers simply , blurs the edges so notice how the edges , are getting blurrier and blurrier and , just so that you can see what'seagoing on , I'm gonna go back into the overlay mode , and you can now see that we have a , blurry edge back on black and white I , can now increase the contrast contrast , makes dark mask pixels black and bright , mask pixels white so notice these bright , and dark pixels here watch what happens , when I increase contrast see how they , start becoming white and black until I , have a straightedge when I push , contrast all the way to W%so that's , what this lighter is controlling'm , gonna bring the feather back down to , zero contrast to zero and now we're , gonna talk about shift edge shift edge , simply means pushing the edge inward or , outward if you want to push the edge , inward you click and drag the shift edge , slider tithe left see how that goes in , or I can pus hit out in and out simple , as that , so I'just gonna type zero to reset , that slider I'm gonna change the view , back to overlay and now we're really , going to use these sliders to control , how the edge of my model looks so I'm , looking at these edges here and I'm , gonna start by adding just a little bit , of smooth maybe a value of two and I'm , gonna add just a slight feather just , blur that edge a little bit and I'm , going to increase the contrast and watch , what happens as I increase the contrast , my edge starts becoming mo redefined and , I lose a lot of that fringing that , outline that was alongside the edge of , the mask and to further refine that mask , I'm just going to click and drag the , shift edge to the left to remove more of , that outline around the edge of the arms , and the rest of the body and Notice , that in this area here we have some , sharp pixels I'm just going to increase , the feather just little bit more just , do not have so much of theosophic , pixels here and this part of the , selection'm holding the space bar and , then'm clicking , dragging to analyze the mask and by the , way I'm not really concerned about the , hair the hair is gonna be different , step in this tutorial so I'm , disregarding it completely in this step , and if you're wondering why well that's , because any adjustments that I made to , the global refinements are also going to , be applied to the hair so if I start , adjusting the hair with the refine edge , tool then it'snot going to do a good , job because these adjustments were meant , for straight edge selections which are , very different than here so I'm not , really concerned about the hair for now , so I'm just going to press ctr Z , command Z on the Mac to undo and I'm , just going to disregard the hair and the , selection looks pretty good for now now , you have to decide how you're going to , output this this is what the output , settings do output to layer mask is what , I'gonna select if you can't select , this option that's probably because you , have the contaminate color selected with , this option selected you can't click on , layer mask'll come back to this option , later in this tutorial for now we'll , just select layer mask and press Oakland , now we have are ally good layer mask , that takes care of the body but the hair , is still a problem we can continue , working with one layer just like I did , on the white background video that'vie , reference din this tutorial but to , change things up a bit and just to show , you different technique I'm gonna use , a second layer to adjust the hair and , sometimes it's easier to break a subject , apart especially when subjects have , different types of edges so you make a , selection for the body and one layer and , you make a selection for the hair in , another layer so what I'm gonna do first , is I'm just going to click on the lasso , too land I'm just gonna make a selection , by clicking and dragging along her hair , like so then with the layer mask , thumbnail active I'm going to make sure , that Black is my foreground color then , I'm going to hold alt and backspace , that's option delete on the Mac to fill , with the foreground color which will , fill the layer mask with black which , hides the selected areas which in this , case , it's our motto's hairy'm going to press , ctr Command D to deselect and I'm , just going to duplicate this layer so , click and drag it into the new layer , icon so now I have a second layer so , this layer is the body and this layer , here will be the hair then right click , and delete the layer mask so I have this , layer here that just includes her body , and her face but not the hair in this , layer will be for the hair so with this , second layer active'm just gonna go in , to select the mask and I'm just going to , bring down the opacity a little bit so , that can see her face and with the , quick selection tool I'm just going to , click and drag to select hair hair and , it'soak if I select their face is not , a big deal so now with her hair selected , I can now refine the edges of her hair , separately from our body and I can make , completely different adjustments in the , global refinements that will give me , better results so what I will do now is , increase the opacity to W%and this , will really show me what the hair looks , like also in this case Think I'gonna , change the overlay color to maybe , lighter gray because Think it'll help , me see the hair better and we're gonna , work with the edge detection so remember , what Is aid earlier if I click on show , edge we can see the edge of the , selection in this case we're not , applying any edge detection but if I , increase the radius now I'm applying , edge detection pitch detection simply , means tutorship looks in that edge , and uses an algorithm to subtract the , foreground from the background but I , don't want Photo shop to determine the , edge for me I want to tell Photo shop but , the edge is so I'm just gonna reduce the , opacity just little bit and with the , refine edge brush tool I can tell , Photo shop what the edge is so I'just , gonna paint on this area here so I'm , telling Photocopies is an edge and , watch what happens when disable show , edge actually so that you can see what's , going on I'm going to increase the , opacity and I'm gonna change the color , to something else I'gonna change the , color to maybe this darker this darker , gray and notice what happens when I , paint see how Photo shop is now analyzing , the foreground and background and , removing the background that's what the , edge that , action is doing also if I click on show , edge you can see that Photocopies just , working on this edge if I increase the , radius you can see the edge so watch , what happens if I just bring it all the , way up to to pixels if disable , show editorship analyzes the entire , image but again I don'twat Photo shop , determining the edge based on the radius , I want to tell it what to do so I'd , rather just paint it in myself so I'm , gonna disable show edge and I'm just , gonna paint alongside the edge of her , hair like so so see I'modelling , Photo shop focus on these areas for the , edge detection of the hair when you're , done you can just press Oakland now we , have two layers we have this layer that , controls the body and we have this layer , that controls that face and the hair but , when we enable both layers together then , we of course get a full extraction now , I'm gonna double click on the thumbnail , hereto comeback into the selected mask , work space and I can use these global , refinement adjustments on the hair so if , I press the Z key and the keyboard and , click to zoom in you can see that if I , start smoothing the selection I make , those adjustments there really don't , want to make any smoothing so I'm just , gonna leave that at zero and I'm gonna , add just a slight feather so that we , don't have too many pix elated pixels , there and then I'm gonna increase the , contrast just little bit and maybe , shift the edge inwards just a tiny bit , something like that and Think this is , a really really good selection and by , the way these are the settings that work , for this image for your image you may , need to make completely different , adjustments and that's okay now I know , what you're probably thinking you're , thinking that some of these stray hairs , have a lot of that fringing a lot of , that edging going on it looks too bright , it dozen't look goo dwell I have two , answers for that first I'm gonna press , OK and I don't want you to worry about , that fringing if it dozen'affect the , image in the background that is in , because sometimes you may do a lot of , work but it really , dozen't make difference because the , background actually matches the hair and , the fringing now if you have to remove , the fringing there's really two things , that you can DI'm gonna show you an , option that Photoshopgives you but I , prefer doing it manually and I'll show , you that process as well so if I once , again with the layer mask thumbnail , selected for the hairy can click on , selected mask if i zoo min you can see , the fringing and if I select , decontaminate colors under output , settings you can see how Photo shop , automatically color corrects those , colors unfortunately you cannot output , as a layer mask so you have to create a , new layer with slayer mask and then , press okay that creates a second layer , and you can see how it fix that fringing , see that this is before and this is , after so it looks much better , however there's two problems number one , you already saw we created a new layer , can disable the layer mask by holding , shift and clicking on the layer mask , thumbnail and you can see how Photo shop , simply colored those areas to match the , hair this of course is a destructive , effect which Id on't like and also it's , the same color all throughout the edges , of the selection which in alto of cases , outdoes't work that well so I usually , don't like doing that so I'just gonna , click and drag this layer into the trash , icon to delete it and'm gonna focus on , this layer so what I'm gonna do instead , of using the decontaminate colors option , is create anew blank layer and I'm , going to press ctr alt Command option , G on the Mac to make a clipping ma ska , clipping mask simply means that the , layer below controls the visibility of , the layer on top so when I click on the , brush tool and make a larger brush by , tapping on the right bracket key I can , paint and notice I'm only painting in , side of the visible pixels from the , layer below and you can already tell , what I'gonna do I'just simply gonna , paint those in by hand so I'gonna undo , that control Z and then I'm going to , hold alt option on the Mac with the , brush tool selected to temporarily , select the eyedropper tool so Icahn , select , one of these Browns here and then start , painting and select a different Brown , and paint this areas up here and I can , just go through the entire edges of the , hair selecting similar Browns or , whatever color the hair that you're , working with is and just work with those , pixels like so now in some cases you may , paint and you may just go in too far and , you create something tardiest't look , too good and the way to fix that is by , using a selection and the mask actually , so let me double tap on the hand tool to , zoom out and I'll actually zoom in just , Little closer just because I want you , to see what's going on here , so what you can do is doctoral command , on the Mac and click on the hair layer , mask to load the layer mask that's the , selection then I'm gonna make it smaller , by contracting it select modify contract , and I'll just make it two pixels smaller , now I want to invert it so that , everything outside of those two pixels , is selected and everything inside of , those two pixels is not that means that , this Brown here that I painted right , here next to her I will not be visible , the only visible areas will be two , pixels away from the edge go in to , select inverse so this is going to , invert the selection you can see how now , I have marching ants across the canvas , on the top and with layer 1 selected all , I need to do is click on the layer mask , icon and that creates a layer mask that , contains anything that we paint on , within two pixels of the edge of the , ma skin other words we're targeting the , stray hair sand not the detail of the , hair if I click on the layer thumbnail , then select the brush tool and paint , you'll see that I cannot paint on her , face but can definitely paint on the , edges where the stray hairs are so all , you need to do is select a color of the , stray hair and just paint that color , back in like so and if Enable the body , and double click on the hand tool you , can see what a good selection we made , simply by , separating the two piece sand by , painting in those stray hair sat this , point all you need to do is work in the , details like in this area here so select , the layer then select the brush tool , hold alt and click to select the color , of the hair and continue painting , obviously take some time when you're , working on your project one thing that I , did'mention earlier that I probably , should mention now is that in some cases , and I'll zoo min and see if this is the , case here I I'm not sure if it was yeah , it was so here I'm gonna disable the , body layer and just enable this regular , layer and I'll also disable the , background it's more noticeable see how , these areas are translucent that's , because the refine edge saw those , lighter colors and assumed it was part , of the background it really wan'ts to , fix it we're going to select the layer , mask thumbnail then select the brush , too land make sure that white is our , foreground color in or reduce the size , of the brush by tapping on the left , bracket key and then paint on those , transparent areas to bring the hair back , simple as that , these highlights same thing Photo shop , assumed it was part of the background , but no worries we can simply paint those , back in and there's different areas in , the image like these strands of hair , where we had that issue but again it's , really easy to paint those back so no , big deal , and in your projects make sure that you , work on all those fine details because , that's what will make your mask look , more realistic and when you're done just , enable the body layer the hair layer in , the background and you will see what a , good job we did making that selection , and by the way it's important to keep in , mind that every image is different and , it will require different settings , different techniques different methods , however if you follow the techniques , shown in this tutorial you will always , start on the right foot if you want to , learn more about cutouts and masking , then check out my advanced hair masking , tutorial'll place a link right below , in the description also if this is your , first ti meat the Photoshoptraining , channel please click on that subscribe , 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