Quick Mask

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Quick Mask
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1. These are the Quick mask button on the right and Standard (regular selection) button on the left. Click the right button to make a mask from an existing selection.
2. Use the foreground color, black to paint in additions to the mask, as shown. If you boo-boo, click the swap colors button in the upper right and white will become the foreground color. Paint with white to remove the excess mask and swap back to black to continue applying the mask edge.
3. The paintbrush tool. I used it to apply the mask. The pencil tool was too sharp at this magnification; it gave a square cursor which I found alarming.
4. This is the small, hard-edged brush I chose in the Brushes palette. At this high magnification, a brush this tiny gives a cursor size as shown at the tip of the banana. Choose a smaller or larger brush as the details demand.
5. Make sure opacity is set to 100 %.
6. This is the area of closely applied mask. You can see how easy it is to make an exact edge against the banana.

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