Thank you so much for taking the time to work on my image. You achieved a great result. So when you made the ORIGINAL selection of the cat (with quick selection tool or any of the selection tools) did you include the selection of the whiskers WITH the part of the background around them? The way I approach it I select around the whiskers since I can NOT select just the whiskers because the lines are too thin so I end up selecting all around the whiskers. Then with the refine edge tool I go over the ENTIRE area i.e. that part of the background around the whiskers that got selected AND the whiskers and supposedly the refine edge tool is going to know which parts are the parts of the subject to be selected i.e. the whiskers and will select it while deselecting the background all around the whiskers. That's the way I was taught to use the refine edge tool. But you are saying I should ONLY be painting on the edges so I am not sure if this is the way you are going about it. Would appreciate if you let me know the way you are going about it. Thanks again.
Hi
I did the following :
1. Opened select and mask and used the Select Subject button.
2. Still in select and mask I went around with the quick mask tool adding/removing any areas that "Select Subject" had missed (to remove areas from teh selection just hold down Alt whilst using the tool)
At this stage most of the whiskers were still missed.
3. I got a very small brush and went round the edges with the refine edge tool. Working in onion skin mode. it was easy to draw over each individual whisker with the tool. You can click "Show edges" at the top to confirm where you are asking refine edge to work. If you accidentally draw to big an area - press the Alt key and brush to remove those areas from the refine processing.
4. I used the ordinary brush (3rd tool down in S&M) to tidy up the area under the cat.
As I said earlier , the trick with refine edge is to keep the brush small and don't bring in large areas of background or have the brush eat into large areas of wanted subject. Used that way it is quite effective.
Dave
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