The new Refine Edge tools in Photoshop CS5 will assist users in making difficult selections, like selecting the hair of a subject.
Author: RC Concepcion
Rafael Concepcion (RC) is an education and curriculum developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, and the co-host of Layers TV - The How To Podcast For Everything Adobe. An Adobe Certified Instructor in Photoshop, Illustrator, and Lightroom, RC has over 10 years in the I.T. and ecommerce industries and spends his days developing content for all applications in the Adobe Creative Suite. RC has held training seminars in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America, and recently combined his photographic and web experience to teach with famed wildlife photographer Moose Peterson at the "You Can Do It Too" workshops in Mammoth, CA and at the Voices That Matter Web Conference in San Francisco, CA. RC also writes columns for Layers and Photoshop User magazines.
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a great improvement indeed, always had difficulties with those selections. I wonder if it works with trees as well.
Amazing !!! I just did it with your lesson it’s great ! Thank you so much, it’s a great video tutorial
AHHHH! Thank you so much! I can not even begin to tell you how happy this makes me, and how much easier it will make my day!
Hey RC!
Just wanted to let you know I really appreciate you spending the time to make and post tutorials we can learn from freely. I know I will be looking in here often to find new tips and tricks!
With Regards,
Steven
this is great.
makes things much easier
use the of of photoshop file in flash and flash file to drmevarver
yeah this refine edge is good when the image is in a white or lighter background, but when you try to create a mask out of an image with merging colors with the hair, still its not that good,you still need to clean it up to have a good mask, but anyway nice improvement on the refine edge tool in CS5
Wow. Not sure if the same power was available in CS4, but that makes things a lot easier for tough selections. Thanks for sharing.