How to make a selection from a masked object?

[threelyons0405]

I have been trying to find an easy way to make a selection out of a masked object but can't seem to figure it out. 

I know if I hold Ctrl and click on the mask it will select it. But that selects the whole object including the hidden part. But what I want to do is to only select the masked part of the object. (i hope I am making sense)

Is there an easy way to do this without having the manually deselect part of the selection with possibly the magnetic lasso (which is what I have been doing)

Many thanks in advance for any help.

cheers

[Chuck Uebele]

I'm not sure what you mean by the marked part. Can you show a screen shot?

[PECourtejoie]

Hi, Chuck, I would guess it means the unmasked part?

[PECourtejoie]

(duplicate)

[threelyons0405]

Typo, it should have said masked I am of course referring to the clipping mask

[PECourtejoie]

Ok, indeed,  there was a file attached (this option is annoying) I would first Ctrl+Click the top mask, then do an intersect bolean operation: CTRL+SHIFT +ALT click on the thumbnail of the mug. SHIFT CTRL adds, ALT CTRL removes.

( or a Right-click on the thumbnail and select Intersect transparency mask.

Instead of Marked, the term is a Clipping Mask in Photoshop

[threelyons0405]

Hey, thanks for your reply. Yes, I was referring to the clipping mask, but had an auto-correct typo which should have read 'mask', not 'marked'... 

And yes, you would have expected better attachment options from adobe... Anyway...  

Unfortunately, your suggestion didn't work. Ctrl+Alt gets me close to what I need. The attachment Mask2.png is basically what I get from that. And from there I can simply delete the hidden area of the masked object. But then it still leaves a faint line (Mask3.png).

But essentially, I was hoping there would be a way I can simply slick to select as I have with Mask.png. But unfortunately, the only way I have figured out how to do it is by using the magnetic lasso - which is totally doable, but I want a much faster simpler method for when I need to do this technique on a large number of images.