Quick masks

- Making accurate selections in gimp is often…a multi-step process where you begin by making…a rough selection and then refine it.…So one feature that you should definitely…become familiar with is the quick mask feature.…It allows you to display a selection as a mask…over the image and you can then use…painting techniques to edit that mask and then…convert it back to a normal selection.…So let's see how that works.…Here in my image let's say I wanted to isolate…this blue surfboard on the left so I could make…some adjustments to its color without effecting…anything else in the image.…

For that I need to make a good selection…to isolate the surfboard from the rest of the image.…So I'll start with the scissors select tool…to roughly select the surfboard.…And in the tool options I'll make sure that…anti-aliasing is turned on…and I'll also turn on feather edges…with a radius of five pixels.…I'll set the first anchor at the top…and then click around the surfboard.…

And I'll add a few extra anchor points…by clicking and dragging out to the edge of the surfboard…