Adobe Photoshop

Lesson D: Object Selection

We used a number of tools in the opening project to select the osprey that we moved to the photo of the Italian town. You may wish to review that exercise. Let’s take a look at how those tools work here. This time, we’ll end with the Quick Selection tool. The first two methods (Select Subject and the Object Selection tool) are under very active development at Adobe, so we’re all looking forward to how they grow into their potential.

• Open the document “D E Object Selection.psd.” Our objective will be to mask the image so that only Peachy the Peach is visible, with neither the black velvet background nor the juggling balls.

Select Subject

When certain selection tools are active, a button labeled Select Subject will ...