From the course: Photoshop 2020 One-on-One: Fundamentals

The selective power of Photoshop - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop 2020 One-on-One: Fundamentals

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The selective power of Photoshop

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- There are a couple of fundamental ways to modify an image in Photoshop. You can edit the entire thing all at once, which is known as a global modification, or you can adjust a specific region, which is a selective modification. Now, selective modifications go to the real power of Photoshop. After all, every mobile app lets you modify an entire image at once. But the giant creative beast that is Photoshop is special in that it lets you color correct one area while keeping another the same. You can move a photographic detail to an independent layer or even into another background. You can photograph a scene one way and then turn it into something altogether different after the fact. Everything in a photograph, every object, every person, every place becomes another asset that you can mix and match as much as you like. See this image? This is not a picture designed to fool you. This is not one of those supposed works of Photoshop-ery or somebody's trying to pull the wool over your eyes and make you believe something that's not true, this is a work of obvious fantasy created using Photoshop's most basic selection tools. In all, Photoshop offers four categories of selection tools to make your job easier: geometric, freeform, and automated, and then the fourth that combines the previous three. I'll show you every single one of them in this chapter.

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