Turning a selection into a mask to build a color effect

…In the previous movie, we created a path,…which we converted into a selection, and then we…made an adjustment layer so that we converted everything…into black and white except for the surf board.…Well, in this movie, we're going to begin to work on…the subject, so here we'll click into the background layer.…And then now what we're going to use, the quick select tool.…So click on the quick select tool or press the W key to choose that tool.…Then zoom in on the photograph, so you can focus in on the area that…you are working on, in this case the subject, our surfer here.…You can change your brush size by pressing…the left bracket key to make a smaller brush.…

Or you can press the right bracket key to make it bigger.…As you work with the quick select tool, one of the things that we've discovered…in this chapter, and you'll discover as you…use this, is that it isn't always perfect.…So, sometimes, if you have a smaller brush, that can help you…to be more exact, or sometimes, it just won't select too much.…If we look at my…