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Transforming selections and removing halos

Transforming selections and removing halos - Photoshop Tutorial

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Transforming selections and removing halos

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- [Presenter] Often when making selections of hard-edged objects, we need to make slight adjustments to those edges to remove halos, to make seamless composites. So in this image, I want to replace the background with this base layer, and then I want to replace the reflection in the mirror using this top layer. While we might think of using the object selection tool, in order to quickly select this mirror, it'll actually make a selection that isn't very smooth around the edges. So, I'm going to deselect that and instead, I'm going to select the elliptical marquee tool. Then I'm going to drag out my elliptical marquee tool, and I'm trying to select around the outside of the mirror. I'm going to hold down the space bar while my mouse is still down to reposition the point of origin, and then drag that out a little bit further after releasing the space bar, then I'll release the mouse. But we can see that it's not a perfect…

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