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88 Project 1: Composite Movie Ad17. Change the Feather value to 1 px.This small feathering value will help to remove (or at least minimize) any remaining background artifacts around the edges of your mask.18. Save the file and continue to the next exercise.Make and Refine a Quick SelectionAs you learned, you can make selections based on the color in an image %u2014 useful when you want to select large areas of solid color, or in photos with significant contrast between the foreground and background. When the area you want to select has a complex edge, refining that edge can produce very detailed results.1. With aftermath.psd open, hide all but the Bricks layer. Click the Bricks layer to select it as the active layer.2. Choose the Quick Selection tool (nested under the Magic Wand tool).3. In the Options bar, make sure the Sample All Layers option is not checked. You only want to select the area in the bricks layer (the hole in the wall), so you do not want to make a selection based on the content of other layers in the file.4. Click at the top area of the hole in the wall and drag down to the bottom edge of the hole.The Quick Selection tool essentially allows you to %u201cpaint%u201d a selection. As you drag, the selection expands and automatically finds the edges in the image. Quick Selection toolClick here......and drag to here.Marching ants surround the selected area.Note:If you stop dragging and then click in a nearby area, the selection grows to include the new area.