By doing so, you ensure the refine edge brush is customised to deal with different parts of the dog. One thing to note is that you might need to adjust the brush hardness and size as you paint. Use this brush, go over the edge of the dog – you can see as you paint over the edge, the dog hair started to reveal, the edge becomes softer and no longer appears solid: Now go to the refine edge brush tool on the left and use the following setting: On the right side, you can choose several view mode, I used the red “overlay” option in this tutorial: Now we can click on the “Select and Mask” button:Īnd this will bring us to this window. The selection looks great however there is still room for improvement – if you look closely, you will see the hair around the edge wasn’t selected. Now since the dog is the subject of the photo, we can use another great feature in Photoshop 2020 called “Select Subject”, as shown below:Ĭlick “Select Subject” and Photoshop will automatically analyse the image, and make a selection of the dog as shown below: Load this image into Photoshop and click on the object selection tool: The end goal of this tutorial is to make a perfect selection of the dog and seperate it from the rest of the image. We start by downloading this cute husky dog stock image from. Use Refine Edge Brush to Enhance Your Selection The Refine Edge Brush can be found under the “Select and Mask” feature, on the top left panel.
Now we’re in 2020, the “Select & Mask” feature has really matured and offering a lot more options comparing to a few years ago – The Refine Edge Brush is one of them. Since then, Adobe has been improving the “Select & Mask” feature based on community feedback and made a lot of adjustments to its feature.
Since Photoshop CC 2015, the “Refine Edge” feature was replaced by “Select & Mask” – at that time this was a very controversial move as the new “Select & Mask” did not have the same ability as the “Refine Edge” feature. Back then, this was the go-to option for a lot of Photoshoppers to tidy up the selection. If you have been using Photoshop for a few year, you may remember a few editions ago we had a feature called “Refine Edge”.