Quick Mak

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I am evaluating Photoshop 7 and cannot get the white paintbrush to edit/reduce the size of the selection in quick mask, as I could in Photoshop 6.0.

Any ideas what I am doing wrong, anyone?

DGB

A couple of thoughts:

1.) you have a Selection "active," but "hidden."
2.) the QM that you are working on is the Inverse of what you thought – hit Q,
then Shift-Ctrl+i, to Invert the Selection, hit Q again, and see if it works, like you expect. Or, while in QM, hit x to swap the colors and Paint – what do you get?
3.) Check the Mode of your Brush – Normal?
4.) Check the Characteristics of your Brush (cannot directly recall when Brush Dynamics hit PS, but think that it was pre-CS, like v7.

BTW, when in QM do you only see Black & White in the Color area? If not, you should and something is wrong. Check your Channels Palette and you should see that you are in QM there. If not, make it Active and try it out.

Hunt

Hello Hunt

I have used quick mask on PS6 and really am doubting the PS7 installation
In QM I can "paint" a selection OK. But if I want to subtract from that shape, changing between black/ white does not work.

WOW -Thought number 3 did it. Brush had defaulted to dissolve and did not work as expected.
BTW, when in QM I DO only see Black & White in the Color area? The colour picker does not work, though I don’t see a problem with this. Do you think that this is correct?
Thanks for your help.
David

Hunt wrote:

A couple of thoughts:

1.) you have a Selection "active," but "hidden."
2.) the QM that you are working on is the Inverse of what you thought – hit Q,
then Shift-Ctrl+i, to Invert the Selection, hit Q again, and see if it works, like you expect. Or, while in QM, hit x to swap the colors and Paint – what do you get?
3.) Check the Mode of your Brush – Normal?
4.) Check the Characteristics of your Brush (cannot directly recall when Brush Dynamics hit PS, but think that it was pre-CS, like v7.

BTW, when in QM do you only see Black & White in the Color area? If not, you should and something is wrong. Check your Channels Palette and you should see that you are in QM there. If not, make it Active and try it out.
Hunt

Thanks Hunt
Your thought number 3 cured it.
The brush had defaulted to dissolve and was not working with quick mask.
BTW When in QM I do only see Black & White in the Color area? The colour picker does not work in QM? Do you see this as a problem? Regards
David.

Hunt wrote:

In article ,
says…

I am evaluating Photoshop 7 and cannot get the white paintbrush to edit/reduce the size of the selection in quick mask, as I could in Photoshop 6.0.

Any ideas what I am doing wrong, anyone?

DGB

A couple of thoughts:

1.) you have a Selection "active," but "hidden."
2.) the QM that you are working on is the Inverse of what you thought – hit Q,
then Shift-Ctrl+i, to Invert the Selection, hit Q again, and see if it works, like you expect. Or, while in QM, hit x to swap the colors and Paint – what do you get?
3.) Check the Mode of your Brush – Normal?
4.) Check the Characteristics of your Brush (cannot directly recall when Brush Dynamics hit PS, but think that it was pre-CS, like v7.

BTW, when in QM do you only see Black & White in the Color area? If not, you should and something is wrong. Check your Channels Palette and you should see that you are in QM there. If not, make it Active and try it out.
Hunt

In article ,
wrote:

I am evaluating Photoshop 7 and cannot get the white paintbrush to edit/reduce the size of the selection in quick mask, as I could in Photoshop 6.0.

Any ideas what I am doing wrong, anyone?

Paint in black, not white.

White expands the selection. Black reduces it.

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