Use Refine Edge to improve selections

Spruce up your selection edges with Refine Edge

Many photo-fixing tasks involve making selections. You may need to select a specific region such as a bland sky so that you can replace it with something more exciting, or simply adjust the sky's over-exposed tones without altering the correctly exposed landscape. Alternatively, you may want to select a person from one shot and composite them into another to produce more creative results. As you've seen from this chapter, the Toolbox compartments are crammed full of selection tools, from the primitive Lasso to the more intelligent Quick Selection tool. All of these tools produce a selection marquee ­ a line of animated dashes that defines the shape of the selected area. After making a selection you may find that the marquee doesn't include the entire subject, and it may also…

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