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This is normal depending on the Tool you are using. The best tool to use would be the Pen Tool, but it has a learning curve. The Quick Selection Tool is easy to learn and works well, but it does require adding and subtracting from the selection.But: In step 2 selecting the plane for a layer mask, I spend ages moving the mask around to fill and remove areas as required.
Once you have the plane selected and have added your layer mask, just hit Cmd/Cntrl + click the planes layer mask in the layers panel. This will reactivate the planes selection.However in step 3 when it comes to deleting the plane from the middle layer, I am unsure how to reactivate the “modified” selection of the plane in order to leave a hole the same as the plane selected in the top layer.
This is normal depending on the Tool you are using. The best tool to use would be the Pen Tool, but it has a learning curve. The Quick Selection Tool is easy to learn and works well, but it does require adding and subtracting from the selection.
Once you have the plane selected and have added your layer mask, just hit Cmd/Cntrl + click the planes layer mask in the layers panel. This will reactivate the planes selection.
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None of these are correct. No "box" should appear. The selection should just load.........in other words, you will just see the marching ants.It loads a pop up box with the following options:
- Disable
- Delete
- Apply
- Add
- Subtractinersect.
Cmd/Cntrl is just one key. Command on a mac and Control on a PC.Reactivated the selection by pressing CTL/CMD plus clicking the mask icon on top layer
When you added the layer mask to select the plane, was the mask all black with a white plane? Like the image below?When I select FILL CONTENT AWARE, it takes about 30 seconds of spinning wheel then the background dissapears and the entire layer is just white pixels with a dotted black outline where the plane was.
This is because you are using a layer mask on the "middle" layer as Rich explains. The layer mask with the white background makes a selection of the background and not the plane. This is why it's removing the entire background and leaving the marching ants in the outline of the plane. Delete the layer mask of the "middle" image. Keep the "middle" image (Layer 1 on yours) layer highlighted, hit Cmd/Cntrl + click the layer mask of the airplane layer (Layer 1 copy on yours), now go to your Content Aware fill.but now I am finding when I try FILL CONTENT AWARE after the spinning wheel I still get a complete white image with a black dotted outline of the plane.