Adobe Photoshop CS6 Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks by Lynette Kent

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9 Click the Switch Colors icon
to reverse the foreground
and background colors and
make white the foreground
color.
0 Paint over any areas that
you do not want selected.
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DIFFICULTY LEVEL
! Click the Switch Colors
icon to make black the
foreground color again.
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10
@ Continue painting until the
whole area is covered in
red.
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# Click the Quick Mask Mode
button to turn off the
Quick Mask mode.
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A Dashed lines indicate the areas
that were covered with the red
overlay and are not selected.
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Note: You can optionally press
Option+spacebar (Alt+spacebar) to
zoom back out to see the edges of
the image.
$ Click Select.
% Click Inverse.
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The selection now includes only
the area you painted in the Quick
Mask mode.
TIPS
Caution!
Remember that you are creating a
mask, which actually selects the
inverse of the area you are painting
over. You must invert the selection
by clicking Select ➪ Inverse before
you make adjustments to the
selected area.
Important!
You may need to feather a selection
before you make adjustments. After
you invert the selection, click Select
➪ Refine Edge to adjust the
selection using the Refine Edge
panel as in task #25.
More Options!
If the image you are painting on is
very red, change the masking color.
Double-click the Quick Mask Mode
button ( ) and click the color
box in the Quick Mask Options
dialog box to pick a new color. You
can also reduce the default mask
opacity of 50% if necessary to see
the selected area below the mask
more clearly.
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