Selections & Masking

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Call it being picky, focused, detail oriented, or a control freak, but photographers and artists often want to change that thing right there and nothing else. Making selections relies on being able to tell Photoshop how to choose that thing right there. Guess what follows?

Photoshop enables both automatic and manual selection methods, and everything in between. Manual methods involve direct control by painting and using paths to create selections, so that Photoshop is not making any choices for you. The Select Subject feature, powered by Adobe Sensei artificial intelligence exemplifies the height of automation. Such fully ...

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