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User Guide
A color overlay (similar to a piece of rubylith)
covers and protects the area outside the selection.
The original selection is left unprotected by this
mask. By default, Quick Mask mode colors the
protected area using a red, 50% opaque overlay.
3
To edit the mask, select a painting or editing
tool from the toolbox, or select a filter or
adjustment command from the menu bar. By
default, painting with black adds to the mask,
shrinking the selection. Painting with white
removes areas from the mask, expanding the
selection. Painting with gray or another color
creates a semitransparent area, useful for feath-
ering or anti-aliased effects.
For a color illustration of editing a quick
mask, see figure 10-2 on page 227.
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Click the Standard mode button ( ) in the
toolbox to turn off the quick mask and return to
your original image. A selection border now
surrounds the unprotected area of the quick mask.
The selection boundary indicates where 50% of
the pixels are selected. That is, if a feathered mask
is converted into a selection, the boundary line
runs halfway between the black pixels and the
white pixels of the mask gradient.
5 Apply the desired changes to the image.
Changes affect only the selected area.
Edited mask, and adjustment applied
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Choose Select > None to deselect the selection,
or save the selection as described in the saving
procedures on page 252.
To change the Quick Mask options:
1 Double-click the Quick Mask mode button
( ) in the toolbox.
2 Choose from the following display options:
•
Masked Areas (the default) to have masked
(protected or unselected) areas appear black
(opaque), and to have selected areas appear white
(transparent). Painting with black increases the
masked, protected area; painting with white
increases the selected area.
With this option, the Quick Mask button in the
toolbox appears as a white circle on a gray
background (
).
•
Selected Areas to have masked or protected areas
appear white (transparent) and to have selected
areas appear black (opaque). Painting with white
increases the masked, protected area; painting
with black increases the selected area.
With this option, the Quick Mask button in the
toolbox appears as a gray circle on a white
background (
).
To toggle between the Masked Areas and
Selected Areas options for quick masks,
Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS)
the Quick Mask mode button.
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To choose a new mask color, click the color box
and choose a new color as described in “Using the
Adobe Photoshop Color Picker” on page 218.