How to select all black in a photo?

I have an all black jpeg image, a flourish -  I want to select all of the black, and change it to white instead.  When I try and select it with the selection tool, it takes forever and isn't accurate bc there are so many twirls in it, etc.
Is there a way to ask photoshop to select all black, and transform it into another color?

short way: Ctrl+Alt+2 and then Ctrl+Shift+i
the long way: ctrl+click the RGB channel in the Channels panel and then go to Select->Inverse
and there are a ton of other ways as well including using the magic wand tool, quick select tool, Select->Color Range(with localized off), etc

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