From the course: Photoshop and Lightroom: Portrait Retouching in the Age of AI

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Achieve better AI results with better selections

Achieve better AI results with better selections

- [Instructor] In this movie, we will continue to talk about how we can make selections and use generative AI, and we'll be working with images that we've actually already seen in the portion of this course where we worked in Lightroom. But I wanted to revisit these because sometimes you do work in Lightroom, you jump over to Photoshop and you're like, okay, hey, how do I do this now? And here I want to illustrate a couple more selection techniques to kind of illustrate how we can work quickly inside a Photoshop to retouch away problem areas. Now, as you know, I love to create new layers, so I'm going to press Shift + Command + N on a Mac, Shift + Control + N on Windows, and type R1 for retouch one. Now, we've seen that we can make selections with a tool like Object Select. We can also make selections with something like the Lasso tool. So if we have an area that we want to correct, we can just go ahead and select around it. Then next, we can hold down the Shift key. And with the…

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