Big_Stan Posted September 6, 2020 Share Posted September 6, 2020 I am trying to use the “Color Picker Tool” in order to make a mask of a specific part of an image. When I select a sample and then adjust the Tolerance slider to include all of the desired tints I also end up having much more area in the mask than I want (from other parts of the image). For example, in the attached image I selected the green background and increased the Tolerance slider to 35% in order to include most of the background (there is still a small spot to the left of the beak that was not included). As you can see the bird (and a bunch of other stuff) is now included in the mask. How would I go about deselecting the extraneous areas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aad Slingerland Posted September 6, 2020 Share Posted September 6, 2020 Question: you use the color picker tool first and I just assume you select some part of the green background. And then? The color picker tool does not select anything. Which selection tool did you use? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aad Slingerland Posted September 6, 2020 Share Posted September 6, 2020 Just checked further. Since you talk about 'Tolerance' I now assume you use the Flood Selection tool. Did you have the 'Contigous' option checked or not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Stan Posted September 6, 2020 Author Share Posted September 6, 2020 Thank you for your response. I am using a method that was outlined by James Rittson earlier this year, "Selecting Samples Colors", (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQZHM5W-uEg) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aad Slingerland Posted September 6, 2020 Share Posted September 6, 2020 Hello Big_Stan, In this particular case I suggest you try the Selection Brsh tool. With a large Brush for the large green background parts and a small or even smaller brush for the small green background part. IMHO that is a better approach then un-selection a large amount of parts of the image as you did show in the first post... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Stan Posted September 6, 2020 Author Share Posted September 6, 2020 I tried your suggestion and it works. However, I was trying to mask based on color. In my Photoshop days I used Imagenonic Noiseware to selectively apply denoise to a specific part (color) of an image. According to Imagenonic, Noiseware will not work correctly with any other product than PS. My goal is the create a “backdoor” that will replicate the color selection capability in AP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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