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The first way to do this, while your selection is active, is to go into Quick Mask mode by pressing the shortcut ‘Q’.

This is a perfect time to refine your selections with a mask. There are often little areas of pixels that you just can’t seem to include, or even really complex areas of color and value that make it hard to use the above tools with no further adjustments. Ok, let’s say you have a selection but there’s still a little bit of fine tuning needed. It works in the same manner when you want to cut a figure out of a relatively white background. This tool is great as you can paint what you want to mask out – for example in the image below I painted the dark blue area with the Quick Selection tool. You can change the size of the brush, and add and subtract areas of the selection. The quick selection tool works like a brush tool. In the image below I simply used the Magic Wand tool to select the pink colors. You will also notice icons at the top that allow you to Add, Subtract, and Intersect the selection. It’s one of those that is often forgotten as there are newer selection tools that may seem more intuitive, however the Magic Wand tool has some features that allow you to adjust what you are selecting, such as tolerance, sample size, and the new Select and Mask feature. The Magic Wand tool is one of the oldest tools in Photoshop, and makes selections based on tone and color. If you have a design with large areas of solid color, or a design that has sharp distinctions between colors, the first two methods you might want to try are the Quick Selection and Magic Wand Tools.