Adobe recently (November 2019) released some new selection technology in the form of the Object Selection Tool as well as the Remove Background option. Combine that with the Select Subject tool that was already there, and you’ve got several tools that all seem to do the same thing. So I thought I’d try a quick experiment to see how each of them compared to each other using various photos. Watch the video below to see the results.
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As always, thank you for your great efforts. For me, when faced with complex selections, I create a duplicate layer in Photoshop and go to TOPAZ Remask. I’ve never found anything close to its’ capability and speed.
personnally, as mentioned in other posts, i use pen tool for any hard edge objects (+contract 1px+feather) and quick select tool on hair, furs,… (+select and mask based on Mattk inner glow,… tricks) and combine selections.
the cup, the guitar, clothes, the edge of black hairs on black background, the grey bowl, the hat of the man against landscape, all are easy with pen tool which cuts inside the pixels.
I don’t find “natural” to tell photoshop the subject is somewhere in a rectangle and let it find it with its AI knowledge 🙂 the idea of lasso seems an interesting idea.
I don’t like the new tools. I waste my time using them. As Matt says, my feeling is that we clearly see the edges with our eyes and brain and can show photoshop where it is by painting on it or using quick select tool.
Hi Matt, useful but I would like to make a suggestion. I have had better results with the object selection tool when I change the mode to Lasso. In a case like your last example, I would draw a loose selection around the model instead of a rectangle and I think you would get a better result.
Excellent and pertinent information.
Thanks