Why doesn't my Quick Mask mode work anymore?

When I try to enter Quick Mask Mode by hitting Q on the keyboard or by clicking in the icon on the tool panel, I get the words "Alpha?16" added to the end of the image title replacing the RGB.  It used to say "Quick Mask/16" when I did this. Also, when this happens, the brush tool will not paint red to make a selection.  Even stranger, when I deselct Quick Mask to go back to RGB, I get a marching ants line around my entire image.  Help!  I want my Quick Mask back.  Restarting Photoshop CC and restarting the computer does not help.

Its possible that when you are doing this you have the White foreground color selected by default, you can change this with shortcut X and you should see the quick mask brush paint red as usual. I hope this helps!

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