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Using Object Selection and the Quick Selection tools

Using Object Selection and the Quick Selection tools - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop 2022 Essential Training

Using Object Selection and the Quick Selection tools

- [Instructor] Photoshop has a number of selection tools that can help us select objects in the image based on the contents of the image including the colors, the tones and the edges. So in this first image, I want to make some changes to portions of the image starting with the scarecrow's pumpkin head. In order to do this, I'm going to select the Object Selection Tool. As soon as I select that, it will enable the Object Finder and Photoshop will try to find objects in the image with the help of machine learning. So as I position my cursor over these pumpkins, we can see that Photoshop is automatically identifying them as an object. If I click on them, it will load that as a selection. If I wanted to add to the selection, I could hold down the Shift key and continue clicking but I actually want to select the scarecrow's head. So I'll release the Shift key and just click in order to select it. Then on the Layers panel,…

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