What is the best way to select in photoshop using a wacom tablet?

[ecastillor]

I bought a wacom tablet in order to save mi wrists but i don t know how to use it...what is the best way do select lets say a silohuete of a person ?

 

Thanx!

[Brian Cassil]

I use a combination of all the methods I'm familiar with that being: magic wand, lasso, magnetic lasso, and for really tricky areas I "paint" the selection using the quick mask and a pressure sensitive brush.

[doujay888]

same here with me i use the same method as brian does,

you'll get the hang of it, just play.

[JamesTaylor]

in order to get the most accurate mask and smoothest edge use the pen tool and make a vector shape around the silohet. Then use this shape as a selection.

[Noise]

I don't use the tablet for selection of people. A mouse with pologonal lasso with feather set to 1 works every time for me.

 

Although, to cut out a bush / tree I use tablet with eraser - the specific brush looks like a star and is called 'Star' - hold the cursor over the brush

 

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[HomeBrewTJ]

I've been reading this forum for quite some time, but have never felt comfortable sharing, but I had to chime in here...

 

Use an RGB channel (or whatever you're working in) that shows the most contrast of the area you want to pick out. Make a copy of it and adjust the levels until there is even more contrast. Select this area with the wand. With the selection still active, go back to the layer you want to make the selection to, expand the selection by 1 pixel, and feather by 2 pixels. Works nice for me.

[Eric]

My preferred method is to use a layer mask with my paint brush. I brush away the stuff I want to remove, and if I remove too much, I switch to black/white and brush it back in. I'd suggest avoiding the eraser tool at almost all costs, unless you aren't worried about loosing information from your imge. Tablets are great tools. However, I've always found a mouse to be less tiresome, and more accurate - ultimately the mouse is less frustrating for detail work. Plus, you can hold down the shift button and click on incremental points around your object, which often times is more accurate than free-handing your strokes. My other favorite is the polygonal lasso for selecting relatively straight regions.If you are die-hard determined to use the tablet to replace your mouse for everything (I still use my table to freehand stuff, like painting flowers and bushes), I'd recommend disabling the "shape dynamics" for your masking brush. I keep my left hand on the keyboard at all times, and hit [ ] to adjust the brush size quickly. And "X" to flip the foreground/background colors for add/remove while masking.