Tools & Techniques
The Photoshop Selection Tools You're Probably Using Wrong (And the Ones You're Ignoring)
I once watched a student spend 22 minutes using the Lasso tool to cut out a model’s hair. Hand-tracing every strand, zooming in to 400%, and cursing quietly under his breath. When he finally finished, the edges looked like they were drawn by someone wearing oven mitts. I pulled up Select and Mask, set the Edge Detection radius to 8px, clicked Refine Hair, and had a cleaner result in about 40 seconds.