Master Photoshop selections with our comprehensive course. Learn essential techniques to extract people from images like a professional in under 3 hours.
This course teaches you the art of making selections in Photoshop, focusing on extracting people from images. You'll learn essential tools and techniques, and how to tackle both simple and complex selections like a pro, all in a friendly and fun way!
Learn the best techniques to extract people from images in Photoshop.
This course is the ultimate guide for making selections of people in Photoshop an incredibly important but tricky skill to master. Learn to use the tools and techniques the same way a creative professional would so you can do anything from basic selections of  person with one coloured background to very complex selections, with hair, transparent details and difficult backgrounds.
Making selections is part of most Graphic Designers and Photographers day to day workflow and mastering the correct way to do it now will save you a tonne of time and ensure you avoid bad habits later down the line.
This course focuses on selections of people but the same workflows can be used for making selections of objects, animals or anything else.
A closer look at what you will learn:
Firstly learn more about Selections and why making them is so crucial in creative work.
Then in the following chapter you will learn about the many different tools and techniques you can use to make selections:
Lasso Tool
Magic Wand
Quick Selection Tool
Marquee Selection
Colour Range
Making
Pen Tool and Vector Mask
Learn about each of these in detail. Each technique has its strengths and weaknesses so you will always be able to choose the right technique for the job your face.
Then move into learning how to refine existing selections you have made.
In the second chapter you will learn how to make more simple selections, with distinct background and well focused images.
Once you know how to make simple selections it’s time to move onto more complex images and techniques. Learn to select hair, transparent details and loads more.
Finally discover some more essential design tools including: keyboard shortcuts, resource websites and design terms to know and more.
This course includes:
21 Videos
3 Hours of learning content
1 Downloadable resource
Who will find it useful:
Anyone who wants to use Photoshop in a professional manner.
People who are aspiring to become professional Photographers or Retouchers.
Creatives looking to master a new essential skill and broaden their knowledge
A basic existing knowledge of Photoshop will be important when taking this course.
Martin is an Adobe Certified Instructor who has years of experience teaching  in both and online in classroom environments. He has also worked professionally in the creative industry for over 10 years on a wide range of projects. The examples and techniques used have been developed over this time to deliver the most efficient and enjoyable approach to teaching and learning.
Take this course to master an essential design skill and make selections the same way as a creative professional.
Learn how to make professional selections in Photoshop
Get from Zero to Hero in Photoshop selections in less than 3 hours
Learn to make selections the right way from an Adobe Certified Instructor
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Martin is a graphic designer and an Adobe Certified Instructor. He was a presenter at Adobe MAX the ultimate creative in 2018 and was recently voted one of the top 10 Adobe instructors in the world. Over 100,000 students are studying from his online courses from over 200 countries. As a designer and illustrator he worked for companies like Pixar,...
Nice explanation.
This course well supplements the other course for Photoshop Designers. The only one issue, the sound should be improved a little bit by removing reverberations.
Great course!
Like Always, Martin, You Rock! Really enjoyed learning more and more.
PPpp11
This course needs to be updated, so much has changed since CC 2014. Still interesting and taught me new techniques.
great information parsed out in understandable segments
I loved the tricks and it´s very usefull for work faster and improve knowledges as well.
Using custom brushes for selection of hair.
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Julius M.
It made my open in strategy when electing people. The process of selecting and masking in complex background made it easier for me to work on and with strategy shared by Martin!.. One of the best startup and focus to understanding the hows of selecting people. Great!!!