Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
This Panel offers us several ways to look at our selection while we refine it. For now, we
are only concerned about the
Overlay
option highlighted in yellow. When this is chosen,
anything that is NOT SELECTED is covered with a transparent red overlay. This helps us
to see how well we did with our selection. It also allows us to improve our selection by
painting over the edges.
We will talk more about this option in the next chapter.
The red overlay in
panel 2
of
Figure 79
shows where we drew our lasso. In
panel 3
,
we brush over the edges and Photoshop reevaluates our selection and attempts to find the
edges. While we are painting over the edges, the red overlay will disappear where we
