Photoshop  also permits you to use the various Painting Tools to create Selections .  We won’t be covering the Painting Tools just yet.  However, an introduction to how the Painting Tools function in Quick Mask  Mode  is essential.

Restore the fudog image to its original state by using the History Palette  or by reloading the image.  {Click} the Edit in Quick Mask  Mode  button on the Toolbox .  Make sure the Background and Foreground colors are at default.

Select the Airbrush Tool  and begin painting over one of the statue’s legs by {Clicking} and holding.  You’ll notice that instead of painting with Black, a very light Red color results.  In effect, you are painting the area you wish to make into a Selection.  Black adds to the selection, white subtracts from the selection.  If you {Click} the Swatches  Tab in the Color Palette  Group  you’ll notice that all of the Swatches are different shades of gray.  Selecting different shades adds transparency to your selection, similar to the Feather effect, the darker the color the greater the transparency.  Once you are familiar with the Painting Tools, you can use them to make very complex Selections .

{Click} Edit in Standard Mode to exit Quick Mask  Mode.  You’ll notice that the Marquee  or Selection area is outside the area you painted.  To reverse the Selection select Select/Inverse.  To force Photoshop  to make the area you painted the Selection area you have to set the Quick Mask Options .

Quick Mask Options
{Double-Click} either the Edit in Standard Mode  or Edit in Quick Mask  Mode button to activate the Quick Mask Options  dialog-box.

Color Indicates
Check Selected Areas to force Photoshop  to make the area you paint with any of the Painting Tools the Selection area.  Select Masked Areas to force Photoshop to make the area outside of your painting area the Selection.

Color
{Click} the Color swatch to change the mask color from default Red to something else.  You’ll find this useful when you have to select an area with the same color as the Mask.  Changing it will make your editing easier.

Enter a different value in the Opacity  field to increase or decrease the opacity of the Mask.  This has no effect on the opacity level of the actual Selection, it affects how much of the image you can see while creating the Mask.