Adobe Photoshop CS5 One-on-One

Figure 3-41.

Figure 3-42.

16. Paint away the small spot inside the handle. We’re already in
    the quick mask mode, so we can paint away the small flaw on the
    handle with the paintbrush tool. Press the D key to make sure
    your colors are set to their default masking values of white (fore-
    ground) and black (background), as shown in Figure 3-42. (Note
    that this is reversed from the regular default colors.)
    Then press the B key to grab the paintbrush tool. Right-click to
    bring up the brush options and set the Hardness value to 100
    percent. Carefully click inside the handle to remove that small
    spot near the edge, but stay inside the white area. Wherever
    you add white to this mask will become part of your selection.
    At last, our saw is ready for its background. Press the Q key to
    leave the quick mask mode.

White is the foreground color

You’ll discover, as you can see in Figure 3-41, that the blade

selection is now much crisper. In fact, the entire selection has

only one tiny flaw, which we’ll fix in the next step.

Quick Selection and the Quick Mask Mode 87