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July 16, 2015
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Quick Mask: How To I Get Rid of It?

  • July 16, 2015
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This morning I opened an important .psd file and on the right side of the Title Bar, inside the parenthesis which normally says, after the filename, something like (RGB/8), it now says (Quick Mask/8)

Here's an image of the Title Bar with the "Quick Mask" indication: (CHURCH SUPPER is the name of a layer)

Here's an image of the Title Bar of a file the way it usually appears, without the "Quick Mask" indication:

This Quick Mask problem makes the file impossible to work with in the ways I normally work with it. For example, it is now impossible to import a .jpg or other image file into the WEBSITE WORKING.PSD file.

What's going on here, and how do I get my file back without the Quick Mask? As you may guess from the file's name, it is extremely important to me, and this Quick Mask problem makes the file unworkable.

I have CS2, which is version 9 of Photoshop.

    최고의 답변: josephlavine

    Q is the keyboard shortcut to turn and off a the Quick Mask mode. 

    -Joe

    6 답변

    Participant
    August 21, 2025

    Quick mask sometimes seems to turn on spontaneously. It shows what I have painted in with a black brush as blue and what I have painted out with a white brush (I am working in an RBG workspace with only one layer, but am only using black white and grays). Nothing noting that Quick mask is turned on appears; Q does not turn it off; there is no way of applying the "edits." Two solutions. 1) Make a Black and White adjustment and up the blues and and down the reds. 2) Make a hue/saturation layer and in lightness completely darken the blues and lighten the reds. Then combine the layers.

    Participant
    September 10, 2022

    Thak you so much for the succinct title. That was mildly annoying

    Participating Frequently
    July 14, 2022

    Was driving me nuts. There's no indication that it has come on. I've turned off the keyboard command.

    Participant
    April 21, 2021

    THANX THIS WAS VERY HELPFUL AND SO SO SIMPLE! I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED BUT I SAID A PRAYER AND THERE YOU WERE WITH THE ANSER!

     

    Participant
    February 4, 2021

    thanks man ! i was about to put my macbook thru my living room window until i got this tip  😜

    josephlavine
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    July 16, 2015

    Q is the keyboard shortcut to turn and off a the Quick Mask mode. 

    -Joe

    ainu작성자
    Participant
    July 16, 2015

    Many thanks for the quick reply Joe