Hi everyone, this is Anne for Graphic Design How To, and today I'm going to tell you all
about the Object Selection tool.
It's brand new in Adobe Photoshop CC 2020.
Alright, let's get started.
Alright, so I've opened Photoshop, and you'll notice this is a different icon.
You'll have to have the brand new version of Photoshop for this to work, which is Adobe
Photoshop 2020.
If you don't have that, the Object Selection tool will not be available.
I've downloaded some images from Pexels, which is a free website, and we'll open up this
children picture.
Now I chose this picture because it does seem that the background blends in with his hair,
so it's probably not the easiest thing to cut out.
Now, one thing we can do – you'll probably know this from previous versions – is we
can Select Subject.
So I'm going to click on that now.
And you can see it's selected both kids and that's not really what we want.
We want to just be able to choose one of them.
So I'm going to hit CMD D to deselect and now we can hit W on the keyboard to get to
our easy selection tools, and we'll choose the Object Selection tool, which is the first
one.
Now there are two ways you can do this.
You have a choice of here, whether you want rectangle or lasso.
I'll start off with rectangle.
So I'm going to draw a rectangle around the girl.
When I release this, Photoshop is going to do its best to figure out what parts of her
are HER and not other things.
So it's done a pretty good job.
Now one thing that's going to help the selection is to turn on Auto Enhance.
This will slow your computer down a little bit, but it does improve the selection.
So I'm going to zoom in here and see what we have.
As you can see, it's not perfect, but it's better than just choosing Select Subject.
Now we can hold ALT or OPT and draw another rectangle around this area.
It's able to do a little better job since we isolated that area.
So let's try this area under her chin.
Okay, now this part I want to add to, so I'm going to hold SHIFT and then draw a rectangle
around that part.
So this is an easy way to refine the selection.
I need to get this part of her dress, and then I don't want this so I'll hold OPT.
Now if you want to see quickly what you have, you can just hit Q on your keyboard, and this
will show you exactly what you have selected, everything that's selected will be red.
And we'll hit Q to turn it back into the selection.
As most of you probably know, the best way to work is non destructively.
So instead of deleting the background, I'm just going to make a mask.
So we'll come up here to Layer > Layer Mask and Reveal Selection.
Because this photo's subjects were so similar to the background, it has a little bit of
a hard time telling, especially up here in her hair...exactly what is the background
and what's not.
And I think that's understandable.
But let's go ahead and try it on a different photo.
I'm going to hit W on my keyboard.
And now we'll try Lasso.
And this time I'm going to follow her pretty closely
so that I can get the best selection possible.
And when you release it will automatically find the best selection.
This part of his skin is really blending in.
So I'm going to hold SHIFT and just draw around this part.
And there I was able to find it a little better.
I'm having trouble with this little part of her
wrist.
Okay, I finally got it.
All right, and then I'm going to hold OPT to subtract, and we'll draw around this section.
Okay, and it's doing pretty well.
Alright, so you get the idea, we can hit Q to see what our selection looks like.
I'm going to use the eraser tool to just kind of erase some of these flyaways out here.
If we want to really define her hair, we can use Select and Mask.
So let's go and do that now.
Select > Select and Mask.
I want to change my view to 'on black' and put the opacity pretty high.
And now I can just kind of paint her hair in.
I maybe went a little far.
So I'm going to undo that.
We'll come pretty close in here.
Now I'm going to make my brush size a little smaller and come up here to the top over here.
Now I'm going to subtract and remove these parts that got kind of hazy
right along there.
And I think this is pretty good.
So I'm going to say OK, and then we can isolate her on a new layer by hitting CMD J. So if
we want to darken the background, we can just go to something like gradient, maybe change
the color to something a little darker.
Now, if we zoom out, you can see she really stands out from the background a lot and her
hair still looks really good.
We do have a little work where I didn't refine the edge as much as I should have.
But you can see how using these two tools together can really speed up your workflow,
the Object Selection tool and Select and Mask with Refine Edge tool.
The Object Selection tool will also work of course on objects.
So let's pull up one of those.
Now here's a car and I'm going to hit W to get back to my Object Selection tool.
And I'm going to kind of closely draw around this.
It tends to work a little better the closer you are to the objects.
And it missed this, so I'm going to hit W, change my mode to the Rectangle tool and hold
SHIFT and just draw this.
And same here.
So if this image is doing a really great job at pretty much getting everything I need.
I forgot to get that thing though.
All right.
So although it's not perfect, I think it's the best thing so far and I plan to use this
in my workflow just going forward because it seems really, really great.
Okay, that's my video for this week.
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And I'll see you next week with another graphic design tutorial.
Thank you!!!