Photoshop makes selection easy by giving you ways to draw selection borders in any shape, size, or form. However, selection is more than dragging your mouse across the screen to create a selection. In addition to standard drawing tools, Photoshop lets you select image information based on channel color information. Maybe it's that bright red car in your background, or the white stucco finish adorning an adobe house, it doesn't matter because Photoshop lets you choose the color and select the maximum range to select. When you work with the Color Range option, the image displayed in the dialog box becomes a mix of black and white. The white areas represent the selected portions of the image, while the black areas represent the masked portions of the image.
Select menu, click
Color Range , and then select an option:
Select. Lets you choose Sampled Colors, a specific color, or Out-of-Gamut colors.
If you select Sampled Colors, choose the select color eyedropper, and then click in the visible image to select a color range.
Selection or Image. Lets you view the Selection Mask or the Image.
Selection Preview. Changes the view of the image in the document window. You can select None, Grayscale, Black Matte, White Matte, or Quick Mask.
eyedroppers to add or subtract colors from the selection, and then click within the image.
Fuzziness slider to increase or decrease the color values selected (0 to 200).
Invert check box to reverse the Selection Mask.
OK to transfer the color range mask to the selection.
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