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Modifying and refining selections

Modifying and refining selections

Now although we talked about these quick selection or smart selection techniques that we've seen in this previous group the smartest selection has to be the AI-powered Select Subject or Remove Background options. These are both options that you will always see whenever you have an image layer selected and you have your contextual taskbar open so I'm just going to click on Select Subject for now and it should find the two elephants really well in this composition we can see in quick mask mode the selection it's not perfect we can see around the edges it kept some of the original sky in there but it is very close to having everything selected that we need for both elephants in this case and if I click on the mask icon in here it's going to turn that into a mask and if I Alt or option click on the mask icon we can see how the edge of this selection looks like so it's not bad but not perfect still better than all the other selection techniques that we've seen so far and by the way if we…

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