Making precise selections in Photoshop is an essential skill that every designer needs. As a print designer, you will find yourself using selections to remove objects from their background to place within ads. As a web designer, you might extract an image and place it on a website with no background. If you are a photographer, you might make a selection to remove blemishes or other unwanted features from an image. You can’t get around it; everyone uses selections, and if you make excellent selections, you’ll end up with excellent work.
So, what do you do when you have something that is extremely difficult to select with normal selection tools? As basic selection tools, you have the marquee tool, the lasso tools, the magic wand tool, and the quick selection tool at your disposal. These don’t always do the trick; you don’t have a truly precise tool to make intricate selections.
Even with the masking and channels, you can’t make a precise selection consistently. Sure, you can refine your selection, feather it, and spend a lot of time on it, but that method is neither easy nor consistent. Notice in the image below, there is a woman on a subtle background. This might not be considered a terribly complex selection, but the hair is fairly difficult to extract onto its own layer.
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