This is amazing, it took me several tutorials to find just this perfect one! No one else has mentioned painting on the layer mask with overlay mode, it was exactly what I needed! Always love your videos, tysm! ♥
This is really great, you covered every step, I’m here because I couldn’t find the select and mask properties panel, then I found it under Window- workspace- Reset Select and Mask. And watching your video gave me a full circle of Select and Mask feature. 👌
By far the best Select and Mask tutorial I have seen. I really liked the way you covered all of the tools, and your process / workflow for using them - THANK YOU!
Thank you so much! I can't tell you how many videos I had to sift through until I got to yours...which actually had the information I needed! Not only are you clear, detailed, easy to understand and calm...you're also hysterically funny! "Everyone told me it would be hot here in Puerta Vallarta, and they were right."
I really needed this tutorial on the different tools AND all the great techniques! I was floundering around, wasting time. Thanks so much for this clarification!
I first started with photsop back in 2005 when I had CS2. Now fast forward 15 years and I am working with it again. I never did master doing this selections stuff. But I must say Oh wow OH wow OH WOW .... this is amazing. I can do this. Thank you for sharing this. I got this now. :)
That must be the best tutorial I've seen this year! I always struggle with this tool so thank you for this great tutorial that I'm definitely saving :-)
Nice tutorial, very helpful...!!! Thank you. How obout a tutorial with those two masks you mentioned? - hair mask + body mask - and see how you combine both... Congratulations, great tutorial, great channel!!! 👍👍👍👍👍
ABSOLUTELY ! I'm just about to finally move on from CS5 to the latest version and I have to say, I'm really disappointed in this. MUCH more time-consuming and with results no where near as good as the pen tool!
I've appreciated Phlearn videos. Most of the time, better explanations are given, rather than just whipping off steps without any sense to what you are doing or why to do it that way. So I came to this video with 1 big question- why would i want to use select & mask? is it the 'standard' way to select/ mask? & trying to get a sense of how it compares to other methods. I was glad this video touched on such issues, but I wished more was said about the 'why/ reason' to use it vs select/ mask without it. The same with the overlay brush? I see what it did, but a bit more explanation would have helped. That is the main thing all resources lack for training in PS- including adobe Helpx user manual. (I'm new to PS, so I am trying to put everything in context, so I can truly learn it. People w/ more experience with it may not have this same need).
Love your videos! For whatever reason, my select and mask workspace is HORRIBLE. I've seen where this is an issue. Have you heard of any updates? I uninstalled PS and reinstalled thinking the bug was fixed, but still same problems... Thanks for all your help :-D
Great tutorial. We should be careful with the term "nondestructive" for this process, as anytime we use "decontaminate colors" the source image is permanently modified. Make sure you save to a new layer in that case so a copy of the original image remains in a different layer. Decontaminate colors is most useful when looking at your image against your new background (as was done in this tutorial, against white).
I can't get this to work. When I go into Select and Mask, the properties panel doesn't look like yours - I have no view mode or anything else. And it won't let me click on ANYTHING. V 22.5.3
at around 16:00 in, you mention setting your brush to overlay. For some reason my brush (in Photoshop 2021) does not have an overlay option. It only has 8 total options, with color and luminosity grayed out. Any ideas?
Hello I feel I have known you man and boy in all your manifestations....beard, no beard, long hair...just waiting for the no hair look. However 'select and mask' I am having real problems and I think its a Photoshop bug V22.5.1 in that the new AI powered Refine Hair really screws up the selection and parts that are not selected introducing weird mushy noise. The refine edge brush throws up weird vertical lines of interference when used and produces random results which are not good in both 16 and 8 bit images. My question to you is how come you never experience these problems? everything you do appears to run smoothly. Now I know you have been touched by the Photoshop god but how is it in all your tutorials over the years I have watched you never appear to have encountered any of these problems?
44 seconds in and I'm exactly where I needed to be! After watching other complex tutorials, this is straightforward and perfect. Thank you
This is amazing, it took me several tutorials to find just this perfect one! No one else has mentioned painting on the layer mask with overlay mode, it was exactly what I needed! Always love your videos, tysm! ♥
This was perfect for me as a beginner. Thank you for going slowly the slower the better and repetition is a virtue!
There are a few people I consider my goto people to learn things and you sir are one of the top ones. Thank you!
thnxx again
I have struggled with refine and mask forever. Thank you so much for this complete tutorial.
This is really great, you covered every step, I’m here because I couldn’t find the select and mask properties panel, then I found it under Window- workspace- Reset Select and Mask. And watching your video gave me a full circle of Select and Mask feature. 👌
Good video thanks
Thank you! This is the first tutorial for this tool that actually shows what the different tools do and when to use them.
By far the best Select and Mask tutorial I have seen. I really liked the way you covered all of the tools, and your process / workflow for using them - THANK YOU!
Thanks! I really appreciate this straightforward tutorial.
Terrific.
Thank you so much! I can't tell you how many videos I had to sift through until I got to yours...which actually had the information I needed! Not only are you clear, detailed, easy to understand and calm...you're also hysterically funny! "Everyone told me it would be hot here in Puerta Vallarta, and they were right."
THANK YOU! So clear. Thank you for explaining WHAT it is doing with refine hair and refine edge and radius.
Thanks Aaron. You give a lot more detail than some of the other videos on the same subject. Nicely done!
Thanks for watching!
Thank you so very much for this tutorial, very clear and very helpful!!
You are the Photoshop BOSS...
So helpful! Thank you Aaron!
Incidentally you still produce some of the best tutorials around so many thanks for that much appreciated.
Thanks for uploading such a learning videos sir
I really needed this tutorial on the different tools AND all the great techniques! I was floundering around, wasting time. Thanks so much for this clarification!
I first started with photsop back in 2005 when I had CS2. Now fast forward 15 years and I am working with it again. I never did master doing this selections stuff. But I must say Oh wow OH wow OH WOW .... this is amazing. I can do this. Thank you for sharing this. I got this now. :)
Ver good, clear and easy to follow.
Thank you for a great learning tutorial.
Brilliant tutorial Thanks
Thanks for clarifyinyg some things that have always mystified me!
Thank you very much Aaron!!!
Thank you Aaron! Usefull tips as always! 👍
learning PS 5years with you guys its really awesome and useful thank you!
That must be the best tutorial I've seen this year! I always struggle with this tool so thank you for this great tutorial that I'm definitely saving :-)
I always learn a lot from this channel, Thank you
Thanks a lot, also good job looking like Iron Man, man!
Thanks so much, learnt a lot from this tutorial
Love it!
Nice tutorial, very helpful...!!! Thank you. How obout a tutorial with those two masks you mentioned? - hair mask + body mask - and see how you combine both... Congratulations, great tutorial, great channel!!! 👍👍👍👍👍
amazing sir
congo for 2M////////sir you deserve 20M sub
love your tutorials !! question when I click on select and mask , nothing like yours show up in my properties box !!! why ? hope you can help thanks
Thanks for the video. I still think that the old way using paths and masks saves a lot of time, compared to these new solutions...
ABSOLUTELY ! I'm just about to finally move on from CS5 to the latest version and I have to say, I'm really disappointed in this. MUCH more time-consuming and with results no where near as good as the pen tool!
Yes, but what is the procedure to use that selection? Do you have to have your other pictures all in the same document?
I've appreciated Phlearn videos. Most of the time, better explanations are given, rather than just whipping off steps without any sense to what you are doing or why to do it that way. So I came to this video with 1 big question- why would i want to use select & mask? is it the 'standard' way to select/ mask? & trying to get a sense of how it compares to other methods. I was glad this video touched on such issues, but I wished more was said about the 'why/ reason' to use it vs select/ mask without it. The same with the overlay brush? I see what it did, but a bit more explanation would have helped. That is the main thing all resources lack for training in PS- including adobe Helpx user manual. (I'm new to PS, so I am trying to put everything in context, so I can truly learn it. People w/ more experience with it may not have this same need).
Dope!
Love your videos! For whatever reason, my select and mask workspace is HORRIBLE. I've seen where this is an issue. Have you heard of any updates? I uninstalled PS and reinstalled thinking the bug was fixed, but still same problems... Thanks for all your help :-D
Nice Smiling Face
Great tutorial. We should be careful with the term "nondestructive" for this process, as anytime we use "decontaminate colors" the source image is permanently modified. Make sure you save to a new layer in that case so a copy of the original image remains in a different layer.
Decontaminate colors is most useful when looking at your image against your new background (as was done in this tutorial, against white).
What tablet do you use or recommend to do your adjustments?
thank so much.here is my school .
How does it select the subject? and, how does PS know what the subject is? for example, selecting inanimate objects?
how do save the extraction?
I have no transparency tool in the properties section
09:00 WITCH CRAFT!
I've cut out hundreds if not thousands on images for e-commerce. The select and mask tools etc. have always failed me.
You noob that's why
EXACTLY !
I can't get this to work. When I go into Select and Mask, the properties panel doesn't look like yours - I have no view mode or anything else. And it won't let me click on ANYTHING. V 22.5.3
It’s like you’re winging it.
I can’t seem to get it to Preview while I am editing in Select and Mask-I have to quit out of Select and Mask to view the masking progress.
and that is a great tutorial on how to use the tool to get bad soft edges that look like a poor job from the editor... :)
at around 16:00 in, you mention setting your brush to overlay. For some reason my brush (in Photoshop 2021) does not have an overlay option. It only has 8 total options, with color and luminosity grayed out. Any ideas?
Oh, its because I was still on healing brush, derp!
💖
I thought that was bootsy collins
Soon as I see the notification I click, regardless
17:50 _It's not the heat, it's the humidity._
Congratulations on 2M sir...... Please give gift for all subscribers
Hello I feel I have known you man and boy in all your manifestations....beard, no beard, long hair...just waiting for the no hair look. However 'select and mask' I am having real problems and I think its a Photoshop bug V22.5.1 in that the new AI powered Refine Hair really screws up the selection and parts that are not selected introducing weird mushy noise. The refine edge brush throws up weird vertical lines of interference when used and produces random results which are not good in both 16 and 8 bit images. My question to you is how come you never experience these problems? everything you do appears to run smoothly. Now I know you have been touched by the Photoshop god but how is it in all your tutorials over the years I have watched you never appear to have encountered any of these problems?