Absolute Beginner's Guide to Digital Photography

■ Hue/Saturation.Choose Image, Adjust, Hue/Saturation to balance severe color casts. Too much red appears in the midtones, so th ...

CHAPTER 10 EDITING WITH SELECTION TOOLS 149 FIGURE 10.20 Adjusting satu- ration in the Hue/Saturation dialog box. In this test ...

150 ABSOLUTE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TODIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY The Absolute Minimum The full version of Photoshop includes valuable tools f ...

11 In this chapter Quick Mask in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements The Amazingly Versatile Pen Tools When Your Software Tools Qu ...

■ Pen Path tools. The Pen, Freeform Pen, Add Anchor, Delete Anchor, and Convert Point tools. ■ Powerful Quick Mask. Paint a mask ...

The Polygonal Lasso Tool The Lasso tool is a powerful selection tool in the Photoshop arsenal. The Polygonal Lasso provides even ...

Press Ctrl+D or choose Select, Deselect to remove the selection. Magnetic Lasso The Magnetic Lasso helps when you need to sele ...

■ Edge Contrast. If the tool isn’t “sticky” enough, enter a higher Edge Contrast value. Edge contrast tells the Magnetic Lasso t ...

Quick Mask Mode Quick Mask mode enables you to paint or draw a mask that will protect part of an image while you make changes to ...

CHAPTER 11 ADVANCED SELECTION TOOLS 157 FIGURE 11.6 Using Quick Mask mode. Click back to standard view to change the quick mask ...

158 ABSOLUTE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TODIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY FIGURE 11.7 The Pen tools and the Path palette. The Pen tools create “paths” ...

CHAPTER 11 ADVANCED SELECTION TOOLS 159 Follow these steps to acquaint yourself with the Pen tool: Click on the Pen tool, and t ...

160 ABSOLUTE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TODIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY FIGURE 11.10 Creating anchor points. FIGURE 11.11 Press down and hold the Al ...

CHAPTER 11 ADVANCED SELECTION TOOLS 161 FIGURE 11.12 The Freeform pen tool enables you to create pen paths freehand that “stiffe ...

162 ABSOLUTE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TODIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY FIGURE 11.13 Adding anchor points. FIGURE 11.14 Converting paths. ■ Convert ...

CHAPTER 11 ADVANCED SELECTION TOOLS 163 Saving Selections Selections disappear if you try to select some- thing else. You can fo ...

The Power of the Color Range Command The Color Range command can be accessed by choosing Select, Color Range. This feature selec ...

CHAPTER 11 ADVANCED SELECTION TOOLS 165 For example, if the lightest pixels in an image are selected by Color Range and then you ...

Choose Select, Modify, Expand or Select, Modify, Contract to make the selec- tion grow or shrink in every direction by the numb ...

■ Select, Similar selects pixels in the image that resemble those in the existing selection, but (unlike the Grow command) the p ...