Quick Selection Tool & Refine Edge Tutorial The quick selection tool is great for selecting shapes within a photo, especially when the shape is on a non-solid background. Refine Edge is a way to take the selection you made and make it more accurate or soften its edges. Be careful with Refine Edge, though, because over using it makes the edges of your selection disappear.
Using Channels to Create a Bumper Photo Tutorial Once we are good at selecting a subject and removing them from the background we can creatively paste the subject on different Channels to create an effect similar to the SNL Bumpers.