Fine Tuning Photoshop


The feather tool is found after you make your selection by going to "Select>Modify>Feather…." At this point you have to make a judgment – you must set the "pixels" of the feather radius. As a rule of thumb, if you have selected a very small area, try ten pixels. For a large area, try 100. You can tell by the amount of "halo" or demarcation you get if you've not used enough pixels or gone too far.
The picture at the beginning of this post is the original image I took on the island of Crete, of the Greek coast, many years ago – an image with which I've always been disappointed, although I knew at the time I took it that this "portrait" had a lot of potential. Below is the adjusted image. The adjustments included lassoing the man's face and hand, feathering the borders (around 70 pixels), adjusting the brightness and contrast to the selected areas, and then using the sharpen command (in the filter menu).
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