The Color Range command is the best way to make a color-based selection. Build and adjust your mask and then use it to apply localized changes to your image.

Learn the best way to use Color Replacement brush, a feature that combines both selection and paint tools to allow you to quickly change the color or a selected area.

This movie shows how the Color Range selection tool can be applied specifically to skin tones so that it isolates facial features, allowing you to make much more targeted adjustments to portraits.

Make image selections with pick flags, star ratings, and color labels while traveling, with tips on strategies for the use of each.

Learn how to apply the Color Range command to build an accurate selection. This masking technique allows you to apply non-destructive changes to specific areas and touch up your image as you go.

Learn how to easily create and save eye catching color themes in Adobe Ideas sketches.

In this tutorial, Principal Worldwide Evangelist for Adobe, Jason Levine walks you through some basic techniques for using Secondary Color Correction in Premiere Pro CS5.5, focusing on skin tones, as well as individual color selections for more intricate grading tasks…all played in real-time thanks to the amazing, 64-bit Mercury Playback Engine.

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.

The vast majority of video professionals use Adobe Photoshop software to help them create and enhance visual effects and motion graphics, or to prepare still images and text for inclusion in video projects. With new Photoshop CS5 Extended, you can leverage cross‐platform 64‐bit support, the unrivaled Photoshop image‐editing toolset, and Adobe 3D Forge—the powerful Photoshop 3D engine that enables you to create and enhance 3D and motion‐based content. Plus, you can enjoy tighter integration with Adobe tools you use every day, including Adobe After Effects CS5, and Adobe Premiere Pro CS5. Realistically blend colors on canvas with the new Mixer Brush, and paint on 2D and 3D artwork more naturally using lifelike Bristle Tips. Remove an image element, and let Content‐Aware Fill intelligently replace the missing pixels.Use new Exposure Merge technology to create photorealistic or wildly surreal 32-bit HDR images with unprecedented speed, control, and accuracy. Take advantage of new Adobe Repoussé technology to easily create 3D artwork from any text layer, selection, or layer mask. And so much more.

Take the time and frustration out of making precise image selections. New Truer Edge selection technology in Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended offers better edge detection and masking results in less time—even when you select the trickiest image elements, like hair. Eliminate background color around the edges of your selection with new color decontamination capabilities.