How To Refine Edges Photoshop Elements

The Quick Selection Tool and Refine Edges in PSE

Changing the Universe one pixel at a time.

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You can download the files I used to brand the example e-card by right clicking the following link . SamplePics.zip files If you use your own files, brand certain that all the pictures take the aforementioned resolution. Utilise the bill of fare:
Image > Resize > Paradigm Size...
To Resize the pictures earlier yous begin.

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Step i:
Load the files in Photoshop Elements, In the Photo Bin you'll see thumbnails of the two files. Resize at present if necessary.

Step 2
Right click on the background thumbnail in the "Bin" and cull "Duplicate" ecard002

Step iii
Click Twice on the ClassGroup Photo and select the Quick Selection Tool
Keyboard shortcut (A Fundamental)
Information technology is easier to select the background... QuickSelectionTool
Once the background is selected, use the menu:
Seclect > Inverse
That will select the Group

Step 5 --Refine Edge the Mask

Click on the Refine Edge push
Opens the Refine Edge Console).

You can access the refine edge dialogue box (tool) whatever time y'all take an active mask. Or, when you are using the Quick Pick Tool.
Menu: Selection > Refine Edge.

Stride 6 - The Refine Edge Tool

viewmode To meet the different ways you tin view your option in the View Mode Box, select the driblet down menu, ( downward pointing Arrow... )

If you Printing the F key, you'll run across how the mask looks using different backgrounds, continue pressing the F key until yous meet a checkered background. (The checkers hateful the background is transparent.) This is chosen the Reveal layer. Pressing the R fundamental jumps to and selects the "R" = Reveal Layer.

We will want to employ On Layers (50).

At the bottom, in the Output box CHANGE the
"Output" To: "New Layer with Mask"

North.B. (Nota Bene)
Editing in "Refine Edge"" is a 1 way street, once a modify is made and you select OK, in that location is no going back, setting "Output To: New Layer with Mask" will salvage the changes y'all make to a new layer and "turn-off" the original layer mask...

Footstep 7 -Settings

refinemask In the Border Detection box

Bank check Smart Radius and set the value to viii pixels (px)

In the Adjust Edge box

Set Smooth to three
Plume to one.4
Contrast to 25%
Shift Border to +seven

The smoothing and feathering will keep the edges soft

Now select the Refine Radius Tool (printing the E key)

You can shift between the Refine Radius Tool and the Erase Refinement tool as you paint over the edges of your selection past pressing the Alt Cardinal (PC), Pick Key (Mac)...

Photoshop will recalculate the selection, each time you brand a paint stroke... then one stroke at a fourth dimension, and expect to see your results (your figurer is calculating) ... You might demand to alter the numbers to get a better effect

To farther check our progress, Revert to the "ON Layer" view or printing the "Fifty" primal

Go on to work with the refine castor (the E Fundamental).

blackonwhite Click on the epitome at the left to see a larger version. When you are satisfied with the Refine Edge Brush shrink the selection using the Shift Edge Slider.

Uncheck Retrieve Settings When you are satisfied with the results

N.B. (Nota Bene)
Brand certain "Output" To: "New Layer with Mask" has been prepare. This will salvage the changes y'all brand to a new layer and "plow-off" the original layer mask...

Now Click OK

Step eight "Drag and Drop" To Add the new background.

RE-Layers The procedure here is dissimilar than the one used in the Magic Extractor. This time you Drag and drop the new background with the move tool on summit of your masked prototype, holding down the shift cardinal centers The paradigm when yous driblet it. In the layers console elevate the background so that it is beneath the grouping photo cutting out.

Highlight the group Photo and employ the movement tool to position the group photo!

The final adjustment is to decontaminate colors (If information technology's needed) This process removes color fringing along the edges of your selection... and gives a professional cease to your cosmos.

Footstep 9: Decontaminate, Decontaminate, Decontaminate
Reselect the elevation layer in the Layers Palette and load the Refine Edge dialogue