How to use Edit in Quick Mask Mode in Photoshop to select objects

  1. Use Select Tool to select a object.

2. Click Edit in Quick Mask Mode icon or press Q

3. The background becomes red.

4. Select Brush Tool (Shift+B). I can brush the object with the white Foreground or erase the background with Black Background.

5. Leave the Quick Mask Mode by pressing or by clicking on the same icon which we used to activate Quick Mask Mode.

6. Go to Select>Select and Mask to refine edge. Save as Layer Mask.

7. This is the result.

8. To check the result, add a new layer by click on Create a New Layer icon. Move the new layer below.

9. Go to Edit>Fill. Select 50% Gray.

10. With 50 Gray background, you can see more details of selection.

11. Now, you can use Select and Mask to refine the edge.

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