The new Refine Edge tool uses the underlying Roto Brush segmentation boundary to determine what region to refine from frame to frame. Chris Meyer shows you how to make corrective strokes and touch up the alpha using the Paint tool.

Roto Brush & Refine Edge contains a number of parameters that help you fine-tune the results of applying the Refine Edge tool. This movie goes through each of the parameters, demonstrating how to improve your results.

With the addition of the Refine Edge tool in After Effects CC, the underlying Roto Brush effect has seen a few changes in parameter names and ranges. Chris Meyer explains.

A Live 3D Pipeline in After Effects CC brings CINEMA 4D scenes in as layers — without intermediate rendering. Separate complicated elements from backgrounds using the Refine Edge tool. Stabilize specific objects within a scene with Warp Stabilizer VFX.

One of the components of the pre-production phase, the project proposal is a visual package that supports your project when pitching to peers, educators, mentors, and sponsors. A good project proposal is more likely get your project approved, so it is important to refine these skills now. This tutorial presents the materials to consider including in your project proposal.

Find out what makes Adobe After Effects Next an essential upgrade for animators, compositors and designers. Jason Levine of Adobe and Mathias Omotola of Maxon show the new Live 3D Pipeline between Cinema 4D and After Effects. Other exciting features are the new Refine Edge that makes rotoscoping easier and the more flexible Warp Stabilizer VFX.

In this movie, Julieanne Kost demonstrates how to use the Quick Select tool and the Refine Edge tool to select complex soft-edged objects.

Debbie Jones, a Commercial Photographer, will demonstrate how you can turn a set of RAW images into effective client-ready web galleries in a matter of minutes. Debbie will also show how to refine image selections using the library of tools and developing techniques.

Create sophisticated photographic blur effects in Photoshop Elements 11. In this tutorial, you'll see how to use the new Tilt-Shift Guided Edit to create a miniature effect. Then you'll learn how to refine the results with the new Refine Edge selection option in Expert mode.

The United States Marine Corps and Bates Creative use Digital Publishing Suite to create Marines Magazine. Both organizations endeavor to stay on the cutting edge of technology and provide bold and engaging content for its audience. In order to streamline resources, they use Adobe products to create both the print and digital versions of the publication. The measurement tools in Site Catalyst allow the editors to assess reader interest and use the feedback to improve and refine their content strategy.

There are several advantages to the newly redesigned Crop tool in Photoshop CS6. In this video tutorial, Julieanne demonstrates the refined interface, new features, customizable presets, enhanced tools and essential shortcuts that will make cropping easier than ever.

In this Quick Tip, Julieanne quickly demonstrates how to create a 32-bit file from multiple exposures in Photoshop and then, using the Develop module in Lightroom 4.1 refines the image's color and tonality both globally and selectively - all while still working in 32-bit! In the tutorial, I don’t believe that I mentioned that when I choose Edit > In, my default setting is to hand off a TIFF file to Photoshop. That way, when I save the file, it saves a 32-bit TIFF – which is what Lightroom prefers (not a PSD file).

Sharing your work can be exciting, productive, and can play an important role in refining a project. A Rough Cut screening is a great way to facilitate media sharing and should be done in a supportive and respectful environment. In this video you’ll learn how to conduct a Rough Cut Screening or Gallery Walk.

The mid-March update to Digital Publishing Suite introduces a new type of overlay called Scrollable Frame and refined how Pan & Zoom is handled. This video introduces theses features along with a cursory discussion of iPad3 authoring for Digital Publishing Suite.

In this episode of the Adobe Creative Suite Podcast, I’ll show you the NEW Adobe Photoshop Touch for iPad. While there are lots of photo editing Apps for iOS, there are none that are truly like “Photoshop.” Photoshop Touch gives you the power and familiarity of Photoshop tools and techniques on your iPad. Best of all the layered files you create can be opened in Photoshop CS5 on the desktop and continued to be refined.

Create unique textures with your fingertips using Adobe Eazel, one of several Photoshop companion apps for the iPad. New connectivity lets you send the design from your tablet directly to Photoshop CS5 on your desktop or laptop computer. Apply the texture to another image and refine with layer styles and blend modes to get just the look you want.

Discover how to create the highest quality image possible by harnessing the power within the Develop module in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Master the tools needed to enhance, refine, and add creative effects to your images using both global and local nondestructive image adjustments, including white balance, tone curves, vibrance, clarity, sharpening, and color enhancements. Also learn how to create presets to quickly apply these effects to multiple images and prepare your images for final delivery with speed and efficiency.

No need for expensive contact lenses, we’ll show you how to use the incredible planar tracker in mocha AE to track your eyes, export them as a Mocha shape layer and apply effects in After Effects to create that “white iris of the zombie” look. Another added feature in this episode is how to use Refine Matte to control the feather, spread and choke of the mocha shape layer. This effect gives you control of how much of the original iris shows around the edge stopping the new white iris from blending into the rest of the eye.

See how Photoshop CS5 easily selects intricate image elements such as hair; eliminates background color around selection edges; and automatically varies selection edges and creates perfect masks using new refinement tools.

In this video Dan Moughamian shows you how you can use the refine edge command to refine selection or mask edges. This is Tip #65 from Adobe Digital Imaging How-To's Book.

Precisely preview and adjust difficult selections. Output your results to a new layer, mask, or document to creatively combine the selection with new backgrounds.

In this episode, Russell Brown demonstrates how beginning and advanced users can quickly and easily create professional quality masks using Photoshop CS5's Refine Mask panel.

Perhaps the best tool in Photoshop CS5? You be the judge. Colin Smith shows you how easy it is to create high quality cutouts. He takes a photo of a woman and then removes her and places her into another photograph. So quick and easy!

Learn how to use the Refine Matte properties in the Roto Brush effect to improve a matte, reduce chatter, remove color spill, and smooth edges.

Select soft edges and areas of fine detail by using the improved Refine Edge and Refine Mask dialog boxes. View underlying layers to create realistic composites, and finesse selections by using refinement brushes.

Take Illustrator CS5 designs into Flash Catalyst and create interactive experiences without writing code. Refine your vector art in Illustrator while preserving the structure and interactivity you added in Flash Catalyst

Join the retro Adobe movement! With this episode, Dennis will show you how to quickly and easily create a colored eye with Adobe Photoshop. You'll be creating alternate Photoshop icons in no time.

Use control handles to define the curvature of a segment. Use the Direct Selection tool and the Convert Anchor Point tool to create refined curves.

Instructor Richard Harrington goes even deeper into Photoshop's refine edges command and shows you how to use it to get more accurate selections.

Instructor Richard Harrington shows you how to use the refine edges command in Photoshop CS3 to enhance your selections.

Richard Harrington shares tips on the new, subtly refined tools in Photoshop CS4 to help get the results you want with your images.

Eran Stern continues to refine the design of the Digits Man promo. Learn how to create a subtle background using the Shape Tool and spice it further with additional effects and Text animations.

Richard Harrington shows you how to speed up your workflow using the vibrance adjustment, fine edge command, and mask panels in Photoshop CS4. Recorded at Photoshop World Las Vegas, 2008.

Learn about important changes to the Photoshop CS4 user interface such as refined workspaces, freely rotatable canvas, greater zoom levels, enhanced controls with panels, and tabbed documents.

This tutorial demonstrates how to combine the refined edges of the Pen Tool and the soft transparent qualities of the Extract Tool in Photoshop CS3. The results are well worth the effort.

Discover the new features in Adobe Bridge CS4 as Julieanne Kost walks through the new features, tools, refined interface and integration with Photoshop and Adobe Camera Raw.

Start by using the Quick Select Tool and Marquee Tool for making a selection in Photoshop CS3. Then, easily modify the selection with the new Refine Edge feature.