Hi. Is there a manual selection bush somewhere in the PS CC toolbox

[PSelments]

I am coming to PS CC from using Elements for several years.     Elements had the old manual selection brush nested with the quick selection tool and the magic wand tool.

I would almost invariably use the manual brush just a little almost all more complicated selections where the color or lighting contrast was not very stark.  There was frequently just a small portion that the quick selection tool or the magic want would not reach well and I could finesse it manually with the manually brush.

Is this tool hidden somewhere in the PS CC toolbox?

If not.  I can see other ways of getting it done, but just wondering if it is there somewhere or perhaps it is available as a plugin.

Thanks.

Chuck

[davescm]

Open Select and Mask and it is the third tool down on the left

Dave

[PSelments]

Hey Dave.  Thanks for the response.  Sorry it took me so long to acknowledge your help.  Select and Mask.  Great help.

Hope you stick around.  I am sure I will have other questions.

Thanks again.

[Silkrooster]

The old method still works in photoshop as well. It is called quick mask. Just press the letter q to switch in and out of that mode. Just use the normal brush tool in that mode.

[PSelments]

Thanks for the response.  I am using Photoshop CC 2017.   When I click on the quick mask icon or Q I get the mask.  But, questions.

1.) can I control the opacity of the mask in quick mask.......make it darker for instance.  It is fairly light.

2.) I did watch someone else use this quick mask last night and they also got the marching ants using the quick mask.(He was using 2015)  I get the mask.  But, don't know if I am masking in or out and not marching ants, so no actual selection.

AAApreciate it.

[PSelments]

Got it.  start the selection then switch to quick mask.

[PSelments]

Premature.  Still don't got it.  I can hit Q for a quick mask.  Great. Helpful.  But, I do not see how to modify the mask.  Doing something wrong.  Normal paint brush or one of the selection tools and it does not change the actual selection.

help.

[PSelments]

OK.  Yes. I am having a conversation with my self and updating you.  DUH (to me).  It is a mask, so white and black modifies it.  OK.  Got it!  that is really helpful and is something I think I will use frequently if my PSE experience is indicative.

thanks. 

AAApeciate it.

[Barb Binder]

I am having a conversation with my self and updating you.

Thank you for my morning laugh!

I think, from your final comment to yourself , that you have it figured out. When you are in Quick Mask mode (Q to get in and out) you can paint with a hard or soft brush, automatically using black, white or shades of gray. (Gray is partial transparency, and soft brushes paint in gray along the edge.) When I'm teaching Quick Mask, my students express the same question you did earlier about what is being selected and what is being protected: I encourage them to tap Q Q to quickly switch to marching ants and back again, because they recognize what the ants indicate. After a while, they learn recognize what they are seeing in the Quick Mask mode, too.

Additional notes:

• To change the mask opacity, did you figure out to double click the Quick Mask button?
• You don't need a selection to start, but it's helpful because it's more visual.
• And remember that sometimes it is easier to select what you don't want, and then inverse the selection back in standard mode.

[davescm]

BarbBinder wrote:

• And remember that sometimes it is easier to select what you don't want, and then inverse the selection back in standard mode.

That sounds like my wife's shopping tactics

Dave