Graphics Programs Reference
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With black as your foreground color, start painting close to the duck, where there
might be some green grass that you inadvertently included in the selection. Keep in
mind that the areas where the red mask appears will not be part of the selection.
Paint the mask to make a more accurate selection.
9
If you accidentally paint into or select some of the duck, press
X
on your keyboard to
swap the foreground and background colors, putting white in the foreground. Start
painting with white, and you will see that this eliminates the mask, thereby making
the regions that you paint with white part of the selection.
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Continue painting until the selection is more accurate. When you are satisi ed with
your work, view the selection by clicking on the Quick Mask Mode button ( ), at
the bottom of the Tools panel, again or pressing
Q
on your keyboard. This exits the
Quick Mask mode and displays the selection that you have created as a marquee. You
can press
Q
to re-enter the Quick Mask mode to i ne-tune the selection even further,
if necessary. Keep the selection active for the next section.
Saving selections
You spent quite some time editing the selection in the last part of this lesson. It would
be a shame to lose that selection by closing your i le or clicking somewhere else on your
image. As mentioned earlier in this lesson, you should save your selections. In this part of
the lesson you'll save a selection so you can close the i le, reopen it, and retrieve the duck
selection whenever you need it.
1
With your duck selection active, choose Select > Save Selection.
2
Ty p e
duck
in the Name text i eld and press OK.
