Using brush within selected area

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Oct 24, 2008
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Hello all,

I have an image where I would like to color the four corners of the border black. I tried to do this by selecting the areas needed, and then brushing over the selected area with the brush tool.

My problems is this – when I try to color the selected area, the color will bleed outside of the selected area (with a lower opacity) into parts of the picture that I do not want touched. When using the brush tool, I have both opacity and flow to 100%. I also tried this with the pencil tool but to no avail.

I have a feeling this is something very simple, but I can’t seem to get it to work. Is there a setting that can be used for the selection/ layer/brush tool that will ensure the selected area is the only area that will be altered? Any help is greatly appreciated!
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Tom Nelson
Oct 24, 2008
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Ray D. wrote:

Hello all,

I have an image where I would like to color the four corners of the border black. I tried to do this by selecting the areas needed, and then brushing over the selected area with the brush tool.
My problems is this – when I try to color the selected area, the color will bleed outside of the selected area (with a lower opacity) into parts of the picture that I do not want touched. When using the brush tool, I have both opacity and flow to 100%. I also tried this with the pencil tool but to no avail.

I have a feeling this is something very simple, but I can’t seem to get it to work. Is there a setting that can be used for the selection/ layer/brush tool that will ensure the selected area is the only area that will be altered? Any help is greatly appreciated!

If your selection is feathered (i.e. the edge is blurred), the marching ants show where the selection is at 50% opacity. In other words, the selection extends outward some distance, fading to 0% as it does so.

To quickly see what’s really selected, press the Q key to enter Quick Mask mode. The red overlay shows the part that’s NOT selected. Press Q again to go back to marching ants mode.

If you want a hard-edged selection, re-do the selection with a feather of zero.

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Tacit
Oct 24, 2008
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"Ray D." wrote:

My problems is this – when I try to color the selected area, the color will bleed outside of the selected area (with a lower opacity) into parts of the picture that I do not want touched. When using the brush tool, I have both opacity and flow to 100%. I also tried this with the pencil tool but to no avail.

Look at the Options bar. You have a feather on your selection tool.

By the way, do not select and then use the brush to paint the selected area; that’s a waste of time. Instead, select the corners, hold down the ALT key on your keyboard, and press the BACKSPACE key. ALT-Backspace is the Photoshop command for "instantly fill the selection with the foreground color."

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