and luckily still is.įrom now on when ever you are doing your selections in Photoshop you no longer have to curse Adobe for taking the magic out of it. So I turned to the good old internet to find some kind of remedy for the failure of the conglomerate – Adobe.Īnd in the beginning It felt like I was trying to uncover Area 51 because almost no information about this could be found.īut then like lightning from a blue sky "intel" was suddenly ticking in, that the good old Refine Edge tool was actually hidden somewhere inside Photoshop. And that was just the thing It was just not for the better. I have always embraced change when it was for the better. but I was not the only one complaining about the sudden change. maybe some of us are getting older so our learning curve is getting pretty darn steep now. Or not at all like "the good old one" that we've all grown accustomed to.Īnd yes. But not the way most photographers wanted them to work. Suddenly they gave us all kinds of brushes to tamper our images with. Then Adobe had a brain fart and believed they could "refine" the Refine Edge tool. It looked something like thisįor some time the world of masking had changed and we all lived in bliss. And now, you could simply drag the mouse around the areas you'd like to mask, and then refine it with the Refine Edge tool – hence the name. hair to a new level.īefore you would have to rely on a couple of techniques – including the infamous channel-technique (hope you know this one) – to really master hair masking. Going from tedious and very labour intensive masking techniques like the Pen Tool or the lasso tool, to using the quick selection tool combined with the Refine Edge tool, hence doing complex masking in seconds.Īnd yes. well magic.īasically it took the select tool to unseen heights.
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I believe it was in one of the first Adobe Photoshop CC versions that Adobe introduced the Refine Edge tool.