R. audit2 wrote:
I need to know how to make a non-horizontal selection of an image. A sample image is at https://castle.so/dl/4hu9x+s
It is hard to explain.
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Ron
Selection techniques in Photoshop are the most fundamental and important skills you’re going to need to learn; it sounds as if, up to this point, you’ve only made horizontal selections with the marquee tool (2nd tool from the top in the tool bar). There are many ways to make selections in PS, some basic, some incredibly complex. The 2nd 3rd and 4th tools in the toolbar, (marquee, lasso and magic wand) are the basics and in most cases can give you a decent selection.
It looks like you’ve used a hard edged brush and dubbed in pixels over the lapel. If you have the original, I suggest you back and try again, but use the selection tools to select the area you want to effect first. The marquee tool will make a straight edged rectangular selection when you click and drag, the lasso tool will make a freeform selection, like a pencil, and the magic wand will make a selection based on similar adjacent pixels. Try out the tools that appear when you hold the mouse over the tools as well.
If you make a selection, then hold down shift and make another selection, the new selection will be added to your selection. If you do the same thing, but hold down option (or alt on a PC) the new selection will be subtracted. Try it out, it takes lots of practice. Once you make your selection, you can save the selection as a ‘channel’ which can be reloaded later on, or used as a mask. To reload a selection that you’ve saved, click on the channel palette.
You can also, once your selection is loaded, go into Quick Mask mode by hitting the Q key. Now the selection shows as a transparent red overlay that you can modify with a paint brush, using black to add to the selection, white to subtract. You can even blur the quick mask using the blur filters to get a soft edged selection.
There’s a lot to learn; I suggest going to PS help and the web and read up on selection techniques, masking and layers. This is only the tip of the iceberg, but once you get going it’s a lot of fun.
