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Photoshop: selection and extraction techniques

Photoshop can be used for many things regarding retouching and image optimization, but when it comes to photo manipulations, extracting parts of images and making composites plays quite a big role.

As with everything in photoshop, there are many ways to make selections and do background extractions.

You might know the old extraction tool which has been excluded in cs 4 and 5.

You might know magic wand tool and it's successor quick selection tool.

But there are also things like color range - using channels - background eraser tool.

Here's a quite useful link going in-depth with the different ways to make selections and extract along with guides to the specific tools used.

Enjoy the link