Color & Selections

• Pick blended colors. The color picker samples the composited result, so you can grab the exact on-screen color even where several layers overlap.
• Adjust non-destructively. Reach for an adjustment layer (Hue/Saturation, Blur, Stroke) instead of editing pixels - you can retune or remove it any time.
• Turn a selection into a mask. Make a selection, then convert it to a layer mask to keep the clip editable rather than one-shot.
• Clip work with a selection. With a selection active, brushing, filling and filters only affect inside it - handy for staying inside tight shapes.
• Paint the selection. The Selection tool's Add, Erase and Blur modes brush the mask directly, which beats stacking marquees for anything organic.
• See a soft selection. Turn on Mask Preview to tint the canvas by coverage; the marching ants alone can't tell a feathered edge from a hard one.