Photoshop - Botherfree Refine Edge

Advanced Techniques for Using Refine Edge and Mask Edge

From Quick Selections to Perfect Masks

This video demonstrates the creation of a high quality mask using two cool features in Photoshop CS5.

Both the quick selection tool and the refine edge command are guaranteed to give mediocre results when used without sophistication. However if a simple set of steps are followed it's possible to create and evaluate a series of increasingly precise selections and to avoid some of the pitfalls that are bound to bug beginners.

These few useful tips are ones to remember.