Tricks for refining a tricky selection
Not all images lend themselves to easy selection. As a matter of fact, for you, the first selection you try to make outside of the guidance of this book will most likely give you issues. Selection is a lot like problem-solving and so it is not uncommon that you may have to prepare images to get better selections. So in this section of the chapter, I have prepared two examples of strategies from my personal work that I use for tricky selections.
Example #1 – adding adjustment layers to increase differences and make better-defined edges
In the example that we covered in the Attribute-based selection section, we chose the highlights as the attribute selection. However, what if we could have chosen the attribute selection called select sampled color? This selection would have been tricky because of the way the image was shot. Let’s analyze the image:
Figure 5.17 – Shows the location of “...
