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Deke's Techniques 037: Auto-Collapsing a Selection Outline

Submitted by deke on 13 September 2011 - 8:15am.

This week's technique is going to seem boring a hell or wickedly wonderful as hell depending on your state of mind. Good old fanciful old Hell. It's either hideously horrible or astoundingly attractive based on your momentary whims.

But here's the idea: I start with a flat image file from a talented artist who does great work but isn't particularly skilled at Photoshop. And you have to edit it. Specifically, you want to select a detail and have your selection automatically contract around said detail, without you having to expend a lot of unnecessary effort. (You're on deadline, after all!) Well, this extremely button-down technique shows you how it works.

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Martini Hour 091, In Which We Self-Select for Awesomeness

Submitted by colleen on 11 November 2010 - 12:30am.

In my admittedly dilettantish opinion, the essence of nuanced Photoshop work is proper selection. Where our eyes can select, Photoshop falls short, so learning how to speak Photoshop's language is important. Because whatever you do, retouching, adjusting tone or color, compositing, covering your tracks, embroiling your neighbors in scandals, making great selections makes it better. This week in the dekeLounge, we discuss the pros and cons of all the selection tools. And Deke holds back nothing, in true Deke style. After this not-quite-hour of bourbon-sipping conversation, you will have your head wrapped how everything from the simplest lasso, to the most useless quick selection tool, to the fabulous color range actually works.