10 Tips and Tricks for Making Difficult Selections in Photoshop
If you’re just starting out in Photoshop and would like to learn the art of making difficult selections to isolate things in photos, check out this great video tutorial by Tutvid. It’s a 37-minute lesson with 10 tips and tricks on methods that range from beginner to advanced.
In case you’d like to skip around, here’s a little “table of contents” for the video:
00:35: Quick Selection
03:35: Select and Mask
07:14: Refine Edge
08:58: Poly Lasso
12:42: Pen Tool
16:54: Using a Channel
22:54: Calculations
26:19: Color Range
29:09: Quick Mask
31:13: Post Selection
32:26: Defringe
You could dive much deeper into each of these techniques, of course, but the several minutes spent on each one should be a great crash course that’ll help you hit the ground running.