Refine selection edges

Elements 13 brought a new Refine Selection Brush, and in Elements 14 it'as been enhanced to cope better with tricky outlines like hair and fur

The trouble with regular selection tools is that they act like a switch. Pixels are either selected or they're not, and this produces unnatural transitions and edge effects. What you need is a subtler, more intelligent tool to automatically identify the areas you want to keep and separate them from an unwanted background, while creating a smooth and natural-looking boundary around even the most complex and finely-divided details. That's what the Refine Selection Brush is designed to do. It was introduced with Elements 13 but it's been enhanced in Elements 14 and it's a useful alternative to the Refine Edge dialog. The Refine Selection Brush tool is designed to improve a selection you've already made ­ it's not designed for making selections from scratch. In our example, we've started off…

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