- Choose the Color Range command. We ultimately want to
select the lips independently of the skin and teeth. Choose
Select→Color Range. Alternatively, if you installed the cus-
tom dekeKeys shortcuts I recommend in the Preface (Step 9,
page xix), you can press Ctrl+Shift+Alt+O (�-Shift-Option-
O). Either way, you get the Color Range dialog box, shown in
Figure 10-7.
PeaRl Of WISDOmThe central portion of the dialog box features a black-and-white preview,
which shows you how the selection looks when expressed as a mask. The
white areas represent selected pixels, the black areas are deselected, and the
gray areas are somewhere in between. This might seem like a weird way to
express a selection outline, but it’s actually more precise than the marching
ants, which we saw back in Lesson 3. Whereas marching ants show the
halfway mark between selected and deselected pixels, a mask shows the full
range of a selection, from fully selected to not selected.
- Click in a dark area of the lips. When you move the cursor into
the lips image window, it changes to an eyedropper. Click in a
dark area of the lips, like the one I’ve designated in Figure 10-8,
to create a base for the selection. You can see that the Color
Range preview changes to reflect a selection that includes all
the areas with a similar color value.
Figure 10-8.Figure 10-7.Click here to startUsing the Color Range Command 343