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Hello everyone. First post here.

I am learning Photoshop from a book. I already have limited experience.

I tried to scan in the exercise I am doing, but I did not want to destroy the binding on my 40 dollar book.

I have created a shaded ring. I used the eliptical marquee tool, then used a quick mask to make a selection of the middle, transformed it, then deleted the middle so it was empty.

The next part says to use Ctrl+A to select all. The problem I am having is that when I press Ctrl+A or do it not using the shortcut, I get the same result, the whole outline of the canvas instead of the outline of the tire like shape.

I tried researching this and I really can't figure out what I am doing wrong here. It's probably something stupid, but I am really stumped and I can not continue with my exercise.

Thanks for your help