5. Selection Tools and Techniques
If you want to really get things done in Photoshop, you have to be good at making selections. Perhaps you want to remove an object from a picture or maybe change the sky to the right shade of blue? Maybe the sweater in your advertisement needs to be blue instead of red or you’d like to duplicate some of the background crowd so your photo doesn’t look so empty. In each of these cases, you’re going to need an accurate selection.
While your eye can easily distinguish two bears in this photo, Photoshop just recognizes pixels. It will take some human intervention to make an accurate selection of the bears.
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