This is where Refine Edge can be very hit or miss, sometimes it works amazingly well and sometimes it is really quite bad 5. I’m going to paint over where I know the edge should be and even try to paint over some of the wispy areas of hair and see how well this tool can pick that stuff up. Paint Around Edges with Refine Radius Brush
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TIP: You can increase/decrease the size of this brush by hitting the square-bracket keys ( ) PRO TIP: There is a temptation to make this brush large when you’re painting with it because Photoshop can look at lots of stuff on either side of the edge area, but this tends to create really bad halo effects around the edge of your selection. Select the little brush icon to the left of the Edge Detection part of this dialog box to activate the Refine Radius Brush tool which will allow us to paint over exactly where we see the edge of what should be selected and also have Photoshop look to either side of where we paint depending on how big/small the brush is a bigger brush means Photoshop will look further to each side. For this image, I’m going to take my smart radius out to about 100px. The Smart Radius slider is how far on either side of your selection Photoshop will look for stuff that should be or should not be a part of the final, finished selection. I am using the Overlay viewing mode and I’m going to tick on “Smart Radius” to tell Photoshop to use it’s Refine Edge magic to detect the edge. I created a rough selection around this girl. This means using a selection tool like the Quick Select tool to grab a rough selection of the thing in your image that you’re looking to cut out. Begin with a Base Selectionīefore using Refine Edge, you must have an edge to refine. Overall it’s a great tool, but if you know when to use it and when another method would be better, it becomes an even more powerful feature! 1. I will cover some of the things I love about this tool in this tutorial, but I’m also going to talk about some of where it has flaws. In Photoshop CC we have a powerful feature called “Refine Edge” which will help you create complex selections with ease.