Two Tricks That Solve 90% of Selection and Cutout Problems

Thomas Chu Photo

In landscape post-processing, we often need to isolate skies, flowers, rocks, and more for detailed local work.

How do you build selections in Photoshop quickly and accurately?

Today Thomas shares his own trick: combining Quick Selection with the Lasso tool solves over 90% of cutout needs.

https://www.bilibili.com/video/av66999762/

Hold Shift while using a selection tool: add the new area to the existing selection

Hold Alt while using a selection tool: subtract the new area from the existing selection

{ : decrease brush size

} : increase brush size