Creating a Perfect Selection in Photoshop (3)

Step 3 - Finishing touch





Use Eraser tool to finish your main object which has clear background as good as you want. You can set the brush tip as you desired for this purpose (depend on how complicated your main object would be).





IMPORTANT TIPS :

• If you want a good result, choose a smooth tip brush rather than a sharp line brush, to create a natural edited image.
  
• Adjust the opacity of this eraser tool before, because this also helps to create blending effect between the main object and its background.
  

Creating a Perfect Selection in Photoshop (2)

Step 2 - Set up smoothness and feather range

Make it a clear selection now by setting up smoothness and its feather.

Enter the menu Select > Modify > Smooth, and type 1 inside the dialogue box.



Enter the menu Select > Feather for 2 pixels feather radius.



Go the menu Select > Inverse and press Delete key after you duplicate your main object's layer.





The result of these sort actions will show like this:

Creating a Perfect Selection in Photoshop (1)

There are ways to create a good selection over an object. This technique is especially used in order to separate the object that we need to edit from its background. Professional Photoshop User tends to make a selection in a very neat technique. When they deal with object like animal fur or human's hair, this basic way tutorial might not be counted. But somehow you need to know how right? Let's take a look.

Step 1 - Optimizing the use of Magic Wand Tool

I recommend this tool, because it is easiest and fastest tool for the beginners. One thing to remember is that this tool will work optimize if you adjust the object color channel a little bit. The purpose is to find a sharp contrast between the main object and its background, so it would easily picked by the Magic Wand Tool based on its hues sample color and contrast.



Find the Color Channel and choose the most contrast hues among the other channels, here I pick Red Channel.





Set the Magic Wand Tool tolerance in the range of 50, then put this tool on any area of your main object. You will find your main object 85% selected automatically.





Back to the RGB Channel and see how it is done in colored mode.



As you can see, it is not yet a perfect 100% finished selection. You can add sub selection inside the main object using Elliptical Marquee Tool. Just hold the shift key and drag your mouse at the same time to add selection inside and alt key to subtract.





A finished selection will look like this:

Creating Vector Shape Object in Photoshop

Step 1 - Separate the object from its background

Select your desired image figure or image object. Just make sure that your object selection is having a perfect shape, because you won't need the entire image element to create this shape vector object.



Hence, delete its background to do so.



Step 2 - Creating paths from the selected object

Remember not to deselect your object after you have separated it from its background. Keep the selection area on, then press Delete.




After you have empty selection area, use Paint Bucket Tool to fill it with black color. This is a very useful trick to make a clear and clean vector shape object.




Go to the menu Window > Paths and make work path from the selection by clicking this icon tool:



You will find your selection turned into this path selection:




Step 3 - Defining custom path

Go to the menu Edit > Define Custom Path then your work custom path will be created in a second after:




Find your own custom path in Tool Box by choosing Shape Tool, then press Custom Shape Tool.




Go to the Sub Menu Bar and check your custom path object. If you have followed this tutorial in a good way, I make sure you would be able to create vector graphics using your own custom path object as you like. ; )