How to do a selection on a mask

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May 29, 2019
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Hello,
I have trouble to select particular things on a mask
For example here Architecture Plan in Photoshop Ep 2 Painting Trees and Finishing Touches - YouTube 2.19mn
I usually use mask for differents tasks but I cant find a way to select only some part of my mask,
I hope you understand what I try to explain
Thanks
Chris

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Correct answer

Hi

Try Ctrl/CMD clicking on the layer mask thumbnail

JJMack

Community Expert

Have you tried targeting the layer mask you want to select part of and use Photoshop selection tools?

JJMack

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

I’m not sure what you mean exactly.

What is giving you problems – making Selections or using Layer Masks or making Selections from Layer Masks or …?

And Selection saved as a Channel (and that includes Layer Masks) can be loaded again as a Selection (cmd-click the icon in the Channels Panel).

If one creates a Selection with the Rectangular Selection Tool et al. one can interest, subtract, add that wit a stored Selection by cmd-alt-shiift-clicking, cmd-alt-clicking, cmd-shiift-clicking the Channel’s icon in the Channels Panel.

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Anonymous

Correct answer

Hi

Try Ctrl/CMD clicking on the layer mask thumbnail

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

Layer Masks can, as Ged Traynor pointed out, also be loaded as a Selection by cmd-clicking their icon in the Layers Panel instead of in the Channels Panel.

And Layers’ transparency can also similarly be loaded in the Layers Panel.

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