TUTORIAL ARTICLE

Beginner

5 min

Select people details with the Object Selection tool

Let Photoshop automatically detect the people in an image and quickly create selections of common detail areas.

What you’ll need

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What you learned

Detect areas that can be selected

Move the Object Selection tool over an image to detect different areas that can be selected. Click on the colored overlay to select an object or area.

Create automatic selections of people

The Select People panel for the Object Selection tool automatically detects people in a photo and can create selections of all the people, specific people, or selections of different detail areas for each person, including hair, facial features, clothing, and accessories.


Instruction by

Seán Duggan

Adobe Stock Contributors

Davide Zanin

June 26, 2025

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