Adobe® Photoshop® 7.0 Classroom in a Book®

Creating a quick mask

Now you’ll open the start file and begin the lesson by using Quick Mask mode to convert a selection border into a temporary mask. Later, you will convert this temporary quick mask back into a selection border. Unless you save a quick mask as a more permanent alpha channel mask, the temporary mask will be discarded once it is converted to a selection.

You’ll begin by making a partial selection of the egret using the magic wand tool, and then you’ll edit the selection using a quick mask.

1.	Choose File > Open, and open the file 06Start.psd from the Lessons/Lesson06 folder.
2.	Select the magic wand tool ().
3.	In the tool options ...