I’ll head up to the Select > Focus Area menu item and click.Īfter I click on this item, the Focus Area dialog box appears. I’m not concerned with anything in the background. Making the SelectionMy goal here is to select what’s in focus within this photo. Even though there are a few droplets of liquid in between, the edges of the foreground are defined enough to make a good selection. After playing with this one for a while, I thought it would work well for demonstration. Original PhotoI looked for a photo that had some good distinction between foreground and background.
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I’ll show you the tools that assist in both of these scenarios. Sometimes Photoshop gets what you want selected immediately and sometimes we need to help it along some. When using this tool, Photoshop looks for defined edges and objects contained within those edges. In this post, I’ll be discussing the Focus Area Selection Tool. It’s your job to decipher between these tools and choose the one that’s best suited for you.
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Now, as I’ve stated in many previous posts that talk about making selections in Photoshop – there are many tools that can accomplish the same task. The apple is one focus area and everything else is the rest.ĭid you know that Adobe Photoshop has a tool that allows you to select an object in a photo based on that object’s focus area? It’s true and it’s extraordinarily handy. In the photo, there’s a narrow depth of field that blurs out virtually everything but the apple. What I’m referring to here is a photo, such as an apple, that’s on a table and is completely in focus. If you take a lot of photos that have distinct focus areas, this post may be just for you.