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Example image to qualify
To use the HSL Qualifier mode to isolate a subject in the Viewer:
1 Open the Qualifier palette, choose HSL from the mode drop-down, and click the
eyedropper.
2 Either click a pixel of the part of the image you want to isolate, or click and drag across
a range of pixels within that subject.
Picking to qualify the ocean
3 To see the key you’re creating as you work, click the Highlight button in the Viewer
Options toolbar at the top of the Viewer.
By default, the area of the image you’re isolating appears in color, while the area of the
image being excluded appears solidgray.
Viewer image with highlight turned on, isolated region
appears in color, omitted region appears gray
Even though the highlight obscures the rest of the image, this doesn’t prevent you from
using the sampling tools to select pixels you can’t see.
4 To subtract from the inner range of the key you’re creating, click the minus Color
Range control, and click or drag across the portion of the keyed image that you’d like
to exclude.
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