How to Use the Selection Brush in Photoshop Elements 15
During this Photoshop Elements 15 tutorial video, we will take a quick look at using the selection brush.
Hello again and welcome back to our course on PSE 15.
We’re still looking at Selection Tools and in this section I’m going to introduce you to what for some people is their favorite selection tool. It’s called the Selection Brush. And the selection brush probably you could describe as the least clever tool but that makes it in some ways the best one to use because basically if you’ve missed a bit in a selection you can use the selection brush to add it. If you’ve added a bit too much in a selection you can use the selection brush to take it away.
So let’s look at this rather bad attempt at selecting the sheep. Let’s go up to its right ear. You can see there’s quite a bit of selection missing there. Let me go to the Selection Tools, choose the Selection Brush and basically when you’re using the selection brush the two options are Add and Subtract. I want to add. I choose a size of brush and whatever I brush with this gets selected. It doesn’t detect an edge, it doesn’t do anything clever at all. It just selects where I brush.
Clearly if I wanted to get that edge more accurately than that I’d use a smaller brush. If I want to work quickly I use a larger brush.
That’s added the ear to the selection. There’s a small error then. I’m going to switch to Subtract mode. I’m going to make the brush much smaller and I’m just going to push the brush into this corner to deselect a bit that was selected and shouldn’t have been.
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And the Selection Brush Tool is really as simple as that. That’s probably what makes it such a popular tool to use.
And the other great thing about it is that whichever tool you use to make your bad selection or at least you selection that wasn’t perfect in most cases you can use the selection brush to correct the selection.
That’s the end of this section. I’ll see you in the next one.