No red in my Quick Mask?

After making my selection using the Quick Selection Tool, then Refining Edges, I need to further manually refine my fringes. I choose the Quick Mask Tool and nothing turns red- just white. I have reset all of my tools to their defaults & checked my black & white swatches & opacity levels, and all seem to be right on. I can paint red using the Quick Mask Tool, but it won't turn either the Masked Area or Selected Area red (even though my Tool Options show red) once I enter the mode from creating the mask. I'm just trying to refine my selection using the tool but it's almost like it won't turn on. What am I missing or what do I have set wrong?

Omg, I found it guys, thanks anyway!! Took me forever to figure that out....
I clicked on "Channels" on the Layer List and found that the "Background copy Mask" was not being shown. Turned it on, and RED Masked Area! Woohoo!

Similar Messages

Quick mask mode problem in Photoshop CS6 64bit

Hi, I have recently installed Photoshop CS6 after previous happy experience with CS3.
The software appears to be seizing up when editing a selection in quick mask mode (image or layer mask) under the following conditions:
- 64 bit mode
- image > screen size, especially at 100% maginification
- or image magnification adjusted whilst in quick mask
The red mask appears slowly and only where I move the mouse curser - but will not cover the entire masked area.
The software freezes, and I have to kill the process from the OS. Task manager shows its status as 'running' and memory / CPU do not appear to be maxed out.
System info:
Adobe Photoshop Version: 13.0.1 (13.0.1 20120808.r.519 2012/08/08:21:00:00) x64
Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit
Version: 6.1 Service Pack 1
System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:5, Stepping:5 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, HyperThreading
Physical processor count: 2
Logical processor count: 4
Processor speed: 2394 MHz
Built-in memory: 3955 MB
Free memory: 1488 MB
Memory available to Photoshop: 3360 MB
Memory used by Photoshop: 60 %
Image tile size: 128K
Image cache levels: 4
OpenGL Drawing: Enabled.
OpenGL Drawing Mode: Advanced
OpenGL Allow Normal Mode: True.
OpenGL Allow Advanced Mode: True.
OpenGL Allow Old GPUs: Not Detected.
Video Card Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
Video Card Renderer: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650
Video Card Number: 1
Video Card: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650
OpenCL Unavailable
Driver Version: 8.712.2.1000
Driver Date: 20100315000000.000000-000
Video Card Driver: atiu9p64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,atiu9pag,aticfx32,aticfx32,atiumd64.dll,atidxx64.d ll,atidxx64.dll,atiumdag,atidxx32,atidxx32,atiumdva,atiumd6a.cap,atitmm64.dll
Video Mode: 1600 x 900 x 4294967296 colors
Video Card Caption: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650
Video Card Memory: 1024 MB
Video Rect Texture Size: 16384
Serial number: 91198564117458096913
Application folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit)\
Temporary file path: C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\
Photoshop scratch has async I/O enabled
Scratch volume(s):
C:\, 232.9G, 164.9G free
Any help with this appreciated as I use QM a good deal,
Thanks
Tim

Boilerplate-text:
Does turning off »Use Graphics Processor« in the Performance Preferences and restarting Photoshop have any bearing on the issue?
Are Photoshop and OS fully updated and have you performed the usual trouble-shooting routines (trashing prefs by keeping command-alt-shift/ctrl-alt-shift pressed while starting Photoshop after making sure all customized presets like Actions, Patterns, Brushes etc. have been saved and making a note of the Preferences you’ve changed, 3rd party plug-ins deactivation, system maintenance, cleaning caches, font validation, etc.)?

Quick mask mode no longer works for Photoshop CC

I have the latest version of Photoshop CC, and the quick-mask-mode no longer functions as it should. When I try to modify an existing mask with the quick-mask-mode the highlighted read only appears on some of the photo being edited. In additions, those highlighted that do appear red only do so very slowly. This problem appeared after a recent update to Photoshop CC.
I have been using this quick-mask-mode for the last 10 years and have never seen this bug before.
I know how to check the options and my opacity is at 50%.
I use quick-mask-mode frequently and I need it to work.
Is there a setting I need to change?
It is hard to believe that I am the only one with this problem.

I'm having the same problem and I just downloaded the latest updates, which didn't seem to fix it. Here's a screen shot:
And the red just along his tricep I had to draw "blind" because it wouldn't populate the brush stroke to cover his arm until after I moved my mouse to the side of the screen. Any changes or movement on the screen is slower than molasses.

Hi All, ready for a quick mask question from a newbie ;-) ?

When I make a quick mask selection, it becomas "red-ish" as it suppose to. When I leave quick mask mode however, the painted area does not become a visible (yes I checked the correct option dialogue box, I guess, according to a friend) selected area though. But when I make any adjustment, eg color saturation, it only affects the area I selected in the quick mask mode, which I cannot see except for the adjustment. How on earth did I manage to make this happen. What have I done wrong or haven't done at all? You kind attention and quick reply is highly appreciated. Best /Stefan

Thanks a lot, Sir, much appreciated. Under View options one can selected "show selection outlines or boundaries", well not in swedish, it says something completely different, but just as you said, there it was!
Again, thanks a lot!

No Quick Mask mode in Photoshop CC Win

My Photopshop CC for windows does not open quick mask mode when I try any of these three (Select / edit in quick mask, or hitting Q on the keyboard, or clicking the washing machine Icon) Instead it goes into and Alpha/8 or 16 mode. And I am not able to paint any masks? What an I missing? I have the latest software (last week) and use the windows version.

Usually when Quick Mask is set up properly, the selected (painted) areas are shown as 50% red. For example when you use a brush to paint your selected areas. By the way using ordinary selection tools while in Quick Mask mode will not show the red area, you must use the selection tools then go into Quick mask mode to see the red area.
To see what your Quick Mask settings are like, double-click the Quick Mask icon, and the options should look like this:
The 50% red comes from olden days when graphic designers would apply a red film called "Rubylith" to mask off areas in artwork and tailor it with an exacto knife.

Problem with quick mask selection appearence

Hi,
I am having a problem with the quick mask view (red) selection. When i press the \ key to see the selection i get a red rectangle in a random place of the screen instead of the red selection. Before the last update i had no such problem. Any solution to this ?
I am working on 64bit cc version Win8

No I tried to disable the Graphics Processor but no result. It is as it tries to aply the mask but crushes. if i leave it for about 10 sec photoshop crushes also...

CS 4 Quick mask problem

Hi
My first posting here
Cant figure out whats wrong. Maybe somebody here can guide me to a solution.
When selected quick mask.
Masking out an area and using brush to select area.
When exiting the mask i dont get the marked area visible by the "walking ants" showing my what area i masked.
Regardless of brush diameter.
Before i had the same problem when opacity was set lower than for example 50. Setting the value higher solved the problem.
Now opacity is 100 but i can see through the marked out area
I have choosen red as color for masking area.
Also the brush is "cut" in half when exceeding ca 300 in brush diameter.
Any tips?
AVFR

Thanks for quick replies.
Photoshop is updatet to latest version,
Drivers are not possible to update yet. No newer that the one i am using.
There exist one that nvidia says will fit to my laptop but get a fault message when installing.
Will examine this further,
Regarding if color i 100 % black.
Where can i check this?
When using cs 3 i couldnt see through the quick mask when opacity was 100.
Now it seems like 50 %
Regardless of which color i choose to use when brushing the areas i want selected
Is there another menu option where i can check enter opacity?
AVFR

Quick Mask selecting entire photo, not just the area I've painted - CS4

Out of the blue, my Quick Mask selecting has stopped working. Normally I enter QM and paint the area I'm interested in with the brush tool. The selected zone appears in red. When I exit QM the red zone is replaced by a dotted line. But now, when I exit QM the entire photo is selected, not just the areas I painted with the brush. I must have hit the wrong button somehow, but I can't figure out which one it was, or how I can get back to normal. I've tried restarting Photoshop and also rebooting the computer, to no avail. Any suggestions?

Thanks for your help. Your solution didn't solve the problem, but taught me something very useful about toggling between masking and inverting the mask. But I did find the answer in the "More like this" column on the right. I had to trash my preferences, which had apparently become corrupted. Now everything's back to normal.

Quick Mask mode has suddenly stopped working.

I have Photoshop CS5. I have successfully created selections hundreds of times using Quick Mask mode, but today it has stopped working. Here are the steps I am performing:
Activate Quick Mask by clicking the rectangular icon at the bottom of the tool bar.
Using the brush tool with opacity at 100%, I paint a selection. The familiar ruby-red color is there to show what I have painted.
Once I am done painting my selection, I re-click the Quick Mask button, which is supposed to convert whatever has been painted red to a normal selection, outlined with marching ants. I was doing this many times just last week and it worked perfectly.
But now, instead of seeing the marching ants highlighting my selection, I see nothing at all. The red highlighting disappears and nothing is selected. To make matters worse, at this point in the process Photoshop never fully disengages from Quick Mask mode and gets stuck there. If I click the Quick Mask icon again, my original selection reappears painted in red. From this point, I can't seem to get out of Quick mask mode and the other tools no longer function properly.
I tried resetting all preferences. When that didn't work I de-installed and re-installed Photoshop, and that didn't work either. Has anyone experienced anything like this?

Its possible you accidently hid the selections. Look in the view menu and see if selections is marked to be shown or hidden. I think it is ctrl-h or cmd-h but at the moment I don't recall. Once I boot up photoshop I can verify it.

Quick Mask Bug found (Mac OS 10.6.8)

Hello there!
I found a bug using the quick mask while editing a layer mask.
Example:
You have a document with a layer that has a pixel mask.
Then you alt-click the layer mask to display it in black and white, to be able to paint on it for example.
If you now make a selection, while you see the black and white layer mask (eg. rectangular marquee or whatever) and then enable the quick mask mode, to modify the selection (display it in ruby mode), the red (ruby) mode displays wrong.
It will not only mask everything red that is masked (or selected, depending on your preference), but also everything from the pixel mask that is black.
This is wrong and has been different in all versions before. It makes no sense to display the layer mask in quick mask mode while editing a selection.
Usually only the selection (or mask) should be displayed in the quick-mask-color (here: red) regardless of being in the pixel layer mask or not.
I can reproduce this error in a new file. I can post a video to illustrate it, if my english is not precise enough to describe the bug.
Could you please fix it soon? Thank you a lot!
System Info:
Adobe Photoshop Version: 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00) x64

Hello,
no it does not change it. But I found out what causes that bug. It's not a displaying issue. Photoshop does something it did not do earlier, this is:
My quick mask color is the same as the layer mask color.
Photoshop displays the (colored) layer mask as well when switching to quick mask (selection) mode.
Using another color makes it easier to differenciate between the layer mask and the quick mask but here's the problem:
When pressing q (to switch to quick mask mode) photoshop will not only display the quick mask, but also the layer mask in their respective colors.
But displaying the layer mask in a color overlay while already being in the b+w layer editing mode makes no sense.
Look here:
Now i set my layer mask color to magenta to make it distinguishable:
New file: Just a colored layer with a pixel mask (the center displays the transparency grid):
This is the layer mask in mask editing mode:
Now if i press Q, not even having made any selection or so, "quick mask" mode will also display the layer mask in its resp. color:
That makes no sense, because I am in layer mask editing mode and I can already see it in black and white.
Is it normal, that in quick mask mode the layer mask is displayed as a color overlay as well? I can't remember seeing this behavior earlier!
Thank you!

Adobe Photoshop Quick Mask Won't Work

I'm using Adobe Photoshop 7. I didn't feel like upgrading.
Ok. I'm trying to use the Quick Mask but it won't mask. Instead, it does a light red mask instead and it won't select anything. I deletes the mask. I can't figure out how to make it so it creates masks instead. I had found a way where if you double click the quick mask button, it will bring up that menu where you can decide what it shows. I change it and it doesn't make a difference. After I select my masked area with the light red and exit out, nothing happens. When I double click the quick mask when on another layer and click the other option, it will make the whole screen red. When I draw with the brush while everything is red, the blank area is the new mask. (Blank as in Un-Red. The brush acts as an eraser.) Please help. I asked a few of my friends and I posted on a clan forum. I also asked on Yahoo Answers. I scowered Google but couldn't find anything that matches my problem. I'm getting quite pissed because it was working perfectly dismorning. I could use the way that is working right now but it is quite irritating.

Ok. I'm sorry for wasting your time. Noel pointed out that I was supposedly ignoring answers so I decided to re-read all the posts just in-case I had missed one. I am sorry for not checking this often. I check it whenever I can. emil emil. His second post was the answer. All I had to do was push D to go back to the foreground color. I even manually went and made it straight black. Sorry for wasting all of your time. Thanks emil emil. Just to answer the additional questions,
Bill Hunt. I was trying out different colors ranging from straight black and straight white to random colors.
MTSTUNER. Here is what happens. Obviously behind I had it inverted so, it had something to do with the brush...
Noel Carboni. Right after I conducted MTSTUNER's test, I had not touched the colors. I went and drawn random lines using white first. Nothing showed up.
Here, I flopped them by pushing the flip over/switch button.
It started doing the usual..
Sorry guys. I feel kinda like a jerk. I didn't fully understand what emil was talking about. Plus, I think I was multi tasking. Talking to some people about finances. My appologies. But, thank you all for trying to help. I really appreciate it.

Quick mask wont show green highlight CS5

This is driving me mad, new to CS5 but have used various other programs with mask feature, I can select a quick mask with the colour set to white and black, on the black it will highlight in Red no problem but on the white it won't hight light in green, it does remove any red but won't hightlight in green for an area I want to keep.
I was trying to make the whites of the eye whiter by creating a quick mask and highligting the whites in green (so with the white colour selected) and then adjusting the levels for the selected area but it just won't work.
Looked every where for an answer.
Apologies if this is in the wrong area as never posted before.
Thanks,
Mark

You are misunderstanding quick masks. There is no secondary selection color. PS only shows the actual selecton. Read the online help.
Mylenium

Quick Mask bug in CS6, Mac OS X

I have the latest version of CS6 on my Mac, OS X 10.8.x. I have found a bug where Quick Mask is not always activated when you select it. Meaning, you select Quick Mask and the proper pen, color, etc., and it won't paint in the mask (default = red). It also doesn't appear to be actually /doing/ a mask either, so I don't think this is a display/driver issue.
Anyone else see this?

There's nothing to screen-shot,
I stand by my request.
it won't paint in the mask (default = red).
A screenshot might show which Blend Mode the Brush is set to etc.
There's nothing to screen-shot, it just seems to randomly happen when I open a quick-mask and it doesn't work.
Do you trigger it via keyboard shortcut or the button in the Toolbox?

Using the "quick mask" tool to change a color

Good Day All
I am a wee bit confused. I wanted to show someone a way to change hair color in Photoshop CS5. Using the method I have used in CS4 I did the following.
In CS%, I clicked on the brush tool and then on the “quick mask” tool. Stared painting in the area I wanted to change. When I clicked to take off the quick mask tool, the paining I had done disappeared. That was it. In CS4 when I turned off the quick mask tool I would get an outline if the mask.
Is there a setting I am missing or has CS5 changed how this works?
Thanks All

Thank you Mylenium....
Here is more information.....
These are the steps I do and the changes that take place
1) Select the brush tool
2) Select quick mask. When I do this, on the layers panel, the background layer is not highlighted
On the bottom left hand side the “set foreground & back ground color changes from (foreround) black to gray and the background color stays white
3) Paint (it is red) the area I want to change and click on the quick mask.
The red where I painted disappears, and the outline is not showing. On the layers panel on the right hand side is now highlighted and on the bottom left hand side the set foreground color changes to black.
4) If I click on the quick mask, the painted area comes back.
I located the “quick mask” under the tab channels. It is displayed as a separate channel. When I turn off the quick mask, the quick mask channel disappears. When I turn on the quick mask, the quick mask channel reappears….
Do I have something set wrong

Quick Mask stopped working- won't select

Ok,
A couple of days ago I was working on some photos with the quick mask. Everything was fine. Then all of a sudden, I finished a photo and went to work on the next one and it would no longer work. I'm new so I openly admit I know NOTHING about photoshop. But when you put the layer into quick mask and you grab a brush, the selection should turn red. I can put it into quick mask, I see the layer darken, but nothing happens when I try using the brush. ALl I can think of is I hit something and put it into some weird hidden mode or something? I have searched the internet but no one seems to have the same problem as me so I can't find an answer. Anyhow, to recap, it was working, and all of a sudden it stopped. What am I doing wrong? thanks

function(){return A.apply(null,[this].concat($A(arguments)))}
thewhiterat wrote:
Yes, there was black, but I still am not getting the red when I put it into quick mask mode and start using the brush.
Prove it. Capture your screen showing you painting black on the Quick Mask.
Keep in mind the foreground and background swatch colors are maintained separately by Photoshop for Quick Mask mode than when working normally.
-Noel

No red in my Quick Mask?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for