Course curriculum

  • 01

    Welcome

    • What You Should Know

    • Welcome

    • Using the Exercise Files

    • Exercise Files

  • 02

    What are Selections?

    • A Selection Makes Everything Better

    • Using Selections For Color And Tone Adjustment

    • Using Selections To Create Masks

    • The Select And Mask Workspace

  • 03

    Getting Started with Photoshop Selection Tools

    • Select All, Deselect And Reselect

    • The Photoshop Marquee Tools

    • The Photoshop Selection Lassos

    • Moving A Photoshop Selection

    • Using The Options Bar For Advanced Selection Control In Photoshop

  • 04

    The Wand Tools

    • The Photoshop Magic Wand Tool

    • The Photoshop Quick Selection Tool

    • Using The Options Bar For Advanced Wand Control In Photoshop

    • Saving Tool Presets

  • 05

    Refining a Selection

    • Using Expand And Contract In Photoshop

    • Grow Smooth And Feather A Selection In Photoshop

    • Transforming A Selection In Photoshop

    • The Inverse Command In Photoshop

    • Adding And Subtracting To A Selection

    • Refining A Selection With The Quick Mask Command

    • Improving Selections With The Select And Mask Command

    • Advanced Control With The Select And Mask Command

  • 06

    Power User Techniques

    • Using Color Range Command To Select A Color

    • Using Color Range Command To Select A Tonal Range

    • Using Color Range Command To Select Skin Tones

    • Creating A Selection Based On Focus Area

    • Using The Select Subject Command

    • Masking A Selection With Pen Tool

    • Third Party Masking Plugins

  • 07

    Creating Selections with Channels

    • What Are Channels?

    • Creating A Selection From A Single Channel

    • Saving A Selection As An Alpha Channel

    • Refining Channels With The Save Selection Channel

    • Using The Calculations Command To Create A Selection From Two Channels

    • Saving Channels With Your Output File

  • 08

    Content-Aware Fill

    • Making An Initial Selection For Content Aware Fill

    • Refining The Sample For Content Aware Fill

    • Controlling Content Aware Fill

    • Using Selections And Content Aware Patch

    • Using Selections And Content Aware Move

  • 09

    Face Aware Liquefy

    • Adjusting The Selection Points For Face Aware Liquefy

    • Refining An Image With Face Aware Liquefy

  • 10

    Conclusion

    • Final Thoughts