In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to quickly and easily clean up selections inside of
Photoshop in this video sponsored by Envato Elements. So here's a Photo I'll use for an
example. Now, I'm not trying to get a perfect selection. What I'm trying to do is demonstrate
how to clean up those areas is so we're going to choose select. We're going to grab the color range
and with color range, all we need to do is use the eyedropper to select a particular color.
If you want to add to it, hit the little plus eyedropper and you can click or you can actually
drag to add to that selection. Now, the purpose of this tutorial is not necessarily to get a
perfect selection. What I want to do is show you how to fix these little bits that get left
over very quickly without spending a lot of time. So I'm just going to click Oklay,
and this will apply a selection. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to put this in a mask.
Now. Generally speaking, if I apply a layer mask,
it's going to grab the selected areas. I want to do the opposite. I want to just select the
unselected areas. So hold down the alt of the option key and click on create new layer mask.
Now, at this point, you're not sure how good or how bad the selection is.
Let me show you the first tip, which is how to identify those areas that need to be fixed.
So with the layer mask selected, let's go add the effects and we're going to grab a stroke.
And so the stroke. I've chosen green as a color.
This is how you select the color here
and you can see it's identifying the bad areas. Now you can go really large with these or you
can go really small just as long as you can see the troubled areas. All right. So we've
selected the troubled areas. I'm going to show you how quick it is to fix those.
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All right, let's fix this with that layer mask selected. What I'm going to do is launch levels.
Controll will launch levels now. Generally, I'll tell you to always use an adjustment layer.
This is one of those times where the adjustment is actually going to work better because we're
going to use this to choke the mask on this image, to see all these little bits everywhere.
If we drag in the shadows, notice it, just cleans those up. And because we are using those little
dots that we can identify those areas very quickly. Now let's look at this before. See,
there's a lot of those areas, and here we go. We've just got them down to very few.
Now let me show you another tip. If that's not quite working, hit, cancel,
go into the layer mask first, and we're going to blur it a little bit. So choose a filter. Blur
Gaussian blur. Give it a tiny little bit of blur, like maybe one Pixel click.
Okay, you won't notice much difference. But now, when we apply the levels, you'll see a
big difference. Control L for levels or command, L and Mac. Now we can very, very easily see how
those just go away much, much easier. And that's because we're able to blur that mask.
Click OK. Now you might see a couple of little bits left over, and that's because these were
large elements. And all I need to do is just grab a brush with that mask selected, make sure we've
got black. And then we can just simply tap to get rid of these little problems. And then when you're
done, just hide the effect and you can see how we're able to get that selection nice and easy.
So once again, I'm not trying to make a perfect cut out. Here what
I'm trying to do is show you two things. One, use that stroke to identify those
areas that need adjustments. And number two is you can go in and you can clean up that mask
using the level. So I'm curious, are any of these tips new to you?
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