Photoshop Top 40 #23 - Color Range

If you use the Magic Wand tool, stop what you are doing and switch to Color Range. This outrageously useful command lets you select an image as easily as the wand, but with more flexibility and much better results.

America likes its lists, and here's another one. Imaging expert and award-winning author Deke McClelland presents his list of the top 40 features in Photoshop—beginning with #40 and working his way up to #1—one weekly video at a time. Some are tools, others are commands, still others are conceptual. All are invaluable. Learn these 40 features and you'll know Photoshop.

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[polisherci]

I love your videos, and I must say they are one of the best online.

I've learned so many little tricks from them. Thank you so much.

[DementorBob]

To the posters saying this could all have been done easier:

Keep in mind that this isn't a tutorial on how to achieve a certain result but on how to work with certain tools, so a slightly more complicated approach is sometimes better to show off all the features of the tool.

[coolineho]

For Color Range Selection, why don't you just select the skin around then invert selection. lot easier no?

[solalovely713]

I'm sick of the word 'organic' x-x

[TokyoZeplin]

@Bleistivt indeed it wouldn't show how to use the command, because the command would be useless :P

And in this case, painting in the lips would take far less time than this.

[Bleistivt]

@TokyoZeplin Well, that wouldn't show how to use the command, also fixing up a mask is much easier than painting it from scratch

[TokyoZeplin]

One thing I dislike with a lot of these, is that you make it far more complicated than needs to be. If your going to paint in a mask ANYWAY, just only paint in the mask from the start!

[rockstardom17]

i could have gotten to this same point a lot easier just using good ol' regular masks!!! but it's interesting anyway!

[ANDiTKO]

Yes.Thank you. I already downloaded it, But its shame that they removed that great tool from CS4