“Select Subject” in Photoshop – Easy ONE-CLICK Masking!

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In this tutorial, we will discuss the Select Subject feature in Photoshop. This new feature is available in the 19.1 release of Photoshop CC 2018.

The “Select Subject” button in the select and mask workspace allows you to select prominent objects in an image automatically with one click.

This tool is great for beginners who want a fully-automatic selection suggestion, and it is a great time saver and starting point for advanced users.

Select Subject is powered by Adobe Sensei, an advanced machine learning technology, and it is trained to identify various objects in an image, such as people, animals, vehicles, toys, and more.

Keep in mind that these are not perfect selections. You will have to refine them, but they are a great starting point.

My last video was all about refining selections and extracting hair from busy backgrounds.

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Jesús Ramirez

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Jesús Ramirez

Jesús Ramirez is a graphic designer and the founder of the Photoshop Training Channel, which he started in 2012 and has grown past two million YouTube subscribers. He has taught at Adobe MAX, Adobe Summit, and Photoshop World, teaches courses for CreativeLive and Pluralsight, and was one of five artists chosen for Adobe Stock's Make a Masterpiece campaign. His Photoshop templates shipped inside Photoshop CC 2018.

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  1. thanks again, I install the update yesterday but I don hat time to explore the update.

  2. How do I import/add more than one image to photoshop. In this case the image of the main subject and the image of the background I want to use as my background?

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