Photoshop’s Quick Selection Tool uses artificial intelligence to decide in real-time where the edges of the subject and the beginning of the background fall.
The tool works best when there is a clear difference between your foreground selection and your background. If there is too much similarity in the pixels, it will get confused and you will spend hours adding and subtracting elements.
Once you’ve carried out the initial selection, you can toggle between adding to the selection and subtracting from the selection in the menu.
Use of the Quick Selection Tool
- Open your image in Photoshop.
- Find the Quick Selection Tool in the left-hand menu (Photoshop Toolbox). It could be nestled in Magic Wand Tool.
Click on the ‚Quick Selection Tool in the Photoshop Toolbox
- Check Enhance Edge in the Options bar, which should give you smoother, higher-quality selection edges.
- Click the button and move the pointer over the area you want to select. Quick Selection will find tones that match the selection until it thinks it’s found an edge.
- You might find you want to add to the selection. If so, just click and drag over another area.
- If the Tool has been over-enthusiastic, you can subtract from the selection. To do that, press the Option key (macOS) or Alt key (Windows) and move over to the section you want to deselect.
- Or you can change the Tool to deselect (minus) in the menu bar to deselect anything you mouseover.
