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13. Using the Refine Edge Brush tool, paint over the grass (near the woman’s arm)
to add those fine details to the selection.
It might be helpful in this area to reduce the onion skin transparency, so that you can
better see the details in this portion of the image.

Original
Selection

Reducing the transparency
allows you to better see
the unselected details.

Note:
When the Select and
Mask workspace is
Refined
Selection active, the Refine Hair
button in the Options
bar does an excellent
job of identifying and
refining obvious hair
in an image. It would
not, however, select the
grasses in this image, so
you should still know
how to use the vari-
14. If necessary, expand the Edge Detection and Global Refinements sections ous tools and settings
of the Properties panel, then review those options. individually.
• Radius is the number of pixels around the edge that
are affected. Higher radius values result in softer edges
and lower values result in sharper edges. Note:
• Smart Radius automatically adjusts the radius for hard The default Basic
and soft edges found in the border region. You should [Refine] mode performs
turn off this option if your selection area has all hard well on hair or other
edges or all soft edges.
fine details, when the
• Smooth reduces the number of points that make up background does not
your selection and, as the name suggests, makes a include much detail.
smoother edge. You can set smoothness from 0 (very
detailed selection) to 100 (very smooth selection). If you expand the Refine
• Feather softens the selection edge, resulting in a Mode options in the
transition that does not have a hard edge (in other words, blends into the Properties panel, you
background). You can feather the selection up to 250 pixels. can activate the AI
• Contrast is the degree of variation allowed in the selection edge. Higher Refine mode, which cre-
Contrast values (up to 100%) mean sharper selection edges. ates better results when
• Shift Edge shrinks or grows the selection edge by the defined percentage (from fine details exist in
–100% to 100%). front of a more detailed
background.
• Invert reverses the mask; selected areas become unselected and vice versa.

15. Experiment with the adjustments until you’re satisfied with the selection edge.
We increased the Smooth value to 10 to reduce jagged effects at the selection edge.

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