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Introducing the Quick Mask mode

Introducing the Quick Mask mode - Photoshop Tutorial

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Introducing the Quick Mask mode

All right, here's that selection outline that we created in the previous exercise using a Color Range command. I'm still working inside the Lips.jpg image and in this exercise we are going to refine the selection using the original selection refinement function inside of Photoshop, which is a Quick Mask mode. So I'd like to direct your attention to the bottom of the toolbox here. Notice that in my case at least both foreground and background color are set to very similar colors and yours if you been working along with me, will be set to pretty much anything besides black and white at this point. Why this is happening is because every time you click, or you Shift+click with the Eye Dropper tool when you're working inside the Color Range dialog box you change the foreground color. Every time you Alt+click on the PC or Option+click on a Mac you are changing the background color, and it appears that I went ahead and Shift+click and Alt+click on very similar colors inside this image. So if…

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