Is this a current feature?

This is me hoping I can exlain what I am looking for in the right way...
Often I work with images that I am trying to edit. What I am wonder is if Photoshop CS4 has a feature to where you can select a certain area of the image/layer and make it a "no edit zone". Further explaination, this "no edit zone" would make any kind of editing done over this zone not appear on the image. In case you don't follow, I often work with images where I'm modifying the color/texture by hand and end up painting outside of areas on the image that I want to modify, forcing me to take the erase tool, zoom in and carefully erase out the areas I colored in that I didn't want to modify. So simply, this feature would take out the extra time of going back and erasing and just not let you edit over the selected area that you chose as a "no edit zone".
I'm crossing my fingers hoping that there is a feature like this on Photoshop CS4?
Best Regards,
Chris

Yes. You can use a selection or a mask to constrain your edits.
More from the help file here:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Photoshop/11.0/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-7701a.html

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