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Quick Selection tool in Adobe Photoshop | Adobe Photoshop | Tutorials Point
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Sep 19, 2024
Quick Selection tool in Adobe Photoshop | Adobe Photoshop | Tutorials Point You can save a lot of time and effort making a selection with the Quick Selection tool. The Quick Selection Tool in Photoshop is one of the most influential and time-saving tools. You can quickly and easily select any part of an image. When you choose an area with a quick selection tool, Photoshop detects and selects the edges, so you don’t have to trace them manually. Watch more Videos at https://www.tutorialspoint.com/market/index.asp Lecture By: Rushi Panchal, Tutorials Point India Private Limited To download tutorix app - http://bit.ly/2ROKdEG
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Hello friends, welcome to Tutorials Point
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In this video we are going to learn quick selection tool in Adobe Photoshop
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So friends, you can save a lot of time and effort making a selection with the quick selection tool
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The quick selection tool in Adobe Photoshop is one of the most effective and time saving tool
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With it, you can quickly and easily select any part of an image. image now friends like all tools the quick selection tool has its own set of tricks and tips that
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can help you to get even a better result so you can find a quick selection tool in a toolbar
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just long press on this button and you can see a three selections which is object selection tool
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which we already covered in our last video in this video we are going to cover quick selection
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tool and next we are going to see magic wand tool so friends by pressing w you can activate this
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selection tool or if you want to go to a quick selection tool or object selection tool
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then just press shift from your keyboard and press W with it and you can switch to the
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other selection tool like this so friends now I'm just selecting this quick selection
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tool so friends when you choose an area with the quick selection tool Photoshop
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detect and select the ages so you don't have to trace them manually so this is a
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secret of quick selection tool So friends, first we are going to cover all the property of quick selection tool and then we are going to cover this example where I'm showing you how you can use a quick selection tool to select this image
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So friends, first we start with this example. Okay, let's start with this example where we are going to remove this person from the background
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Also, you can change a background color with a desaturate or a black and white
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So first we are going to select this quick selection tool. Okay now here you can see some property the same as the previous our video we can see a new selection as well as
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Add to selection and a subtract to selection which means you can select a new selection as well as if you want to
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Add a new selection when this tool you can select a new as well as you can subtract so with these three parts the same as we are learned in our previous video
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Now next is this part what is it So the Bross popup menu allow you to adjust the size of the brush. Now as you can see from here you
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can change the size of this brush. So click on the arrow to open the menu and use the slider
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to resize the brush A different size brush enable you to select a larger areas quicker or refine your selections better with a smaller brush So the smaller brush gives you a more accurate result
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So right now I'm just make it 15. Fine. You can change a hardness as well as spacing
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So these all you have to do by yourself, just change the value and see the result what happened
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Fine. Now the next is sample all layer. So check a sample or layer if you want the selections of factor in information
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from all the layers in your project and not only the active layers
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So we just leave it off. And next you can see Enhance Ages
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Now then check the Enhance Ages to reduce the roughness of the selection boundary
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The button automatically apply edges refinement to the selection which will help when cutting
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an object out of the background to produce a cleaner look. So this is the property of this quick selection tool
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Now let's start with our example. So make sure your quick selection tool is enable
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And as you can see, our mouse pointer will change to quick selection tool
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From here, as I'm showing you, you can increase like this. So this one is better because it is visible
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Now I'm just drag area which I want to select. And as you can see, so is it done
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No, not yet. Still this part is missing. Just again click here this part
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And as you can see, is it selected like this? I'm just selecting this part
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and this part is also selected okay just zoom so you can get an proper area fine
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okay friends so these are just quick selection tool I'm just still need to
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select this part still we have some issue over here we want to remove this part so
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we are going to use keyboard shortcut alter in Windows operating system so just
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press alt and select this part okay so right now we don't want this much big brush
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I'm just reduce the size and now I'm going to just apply this okay plus for the
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adding and alt for the subtracting you just need to play with these all tools and
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you can be a master of these tools so friends as you can see our selection is done
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Now I am going to tell you one more tips where you can change a black and white background which look very good
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Now to colorize the background I'll invert the selection by pressing Shift plus control plus I like this
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Okay so as you can see the our inverse selection is done this for a Windows operating system and if you are using a Mac operating system then you need to use Shift plus command plus I now which will deselect a main subject these are our main subject
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which will deselect my main subject and select everything around it instead so friends now I am just
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select my layer and here I am applying a hue and saturation so as you can see
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our background become black and white. You can also change this thing, okay
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See, you can colorize your background like this. So friends, this is our next example
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So I'm just selecting our quick selection tool and just drag the area and as you can
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see the quick selection tool apply its magic. Okay just zoom and make sure selection is proper so as you can see my selection is very nice fine
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Still we have to remove this part so for that just press alt in your keyboard and as you can see you can easily remove this part
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Okay, I'm just colorize my character and make a black and white background just press control plus
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sift plus i okay now here from here you can add u plus saturation and i'm just saturate this to
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minus so boom so like this you can do a very good quick selections in adobe photoshop or you can
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create very beautiful image or editing so our next example is this where we are going to remove this
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yoga teacher from the background just select a quick selection tool so i'm
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I'm just selecting my quick selection tool and now I'm start over my mouse pointer over this actor
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So as you can see some unwanted part is selected over here
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Just press alt in your keyboard and you can remove those parts but first of all I am just increased the size
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Okay now I'm just use a alt in my keyboard to remove this part like this
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this from here you can also do these all the things for adding for subtracting as well as new
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okay so almost our selection is done like this fine we need to add this hair properly just selecting this hair
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okay so just to zoom so that you can see all the selection is proper or not okay
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as you can see we don't need this part so I'm just pressing minus over here to remove
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this part okay press alt in your keyboard and it will be automatically detect this part
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you can also use this just decrease the size of the brush so you can easily select this
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okay press minus press minus in your keyboard so this like this so our work is done now I'm just inverting the selection and changing the
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background see it's look very beautiful so like this you can do a very
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creative things in Adobe Photoshop so as you can see these are our original footage and
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this is our editate footage with a quick selection tool so friends our last
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footage is this okay we are just using this quick selection tool fine increase
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the brush size and we are just selecting this actor okay as you can see the hair
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part is not getting properly removed so like this you can select this so
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friends like this you can select this model okay now the same way we can use
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control shift i okay to see how it's look I'm just using the UN saturation
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okay so as you can see these are original footage and this is the footage with the quick selection tool
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Still some part of our previous footage is not gone properly because the quick selection
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tool not go in that much detail. For that we are going to use a magic wand tool in our next video
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So friends that's all about a quick selection tool in Adobe Photoshop
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In the next video we are going to learn magic wand tool in Adobe Photoshop
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Thank you so much guys
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