Masking Issues

[Hardrocker88]

I am currently having issues with vector masking on Photoshop CS4.

I am trying to crop a persons images out from a white background,
but when I do, they get masked and the background is revealed.

I don't know if there was a button I pushed, or a setting to change,
but this is how I have normally cropped all the images I do, and I
don't know why it is masking the inverse now.

Does anyone know how to change this?

 

[iDad]

sounds like you selected inverse on your selection, right click it and click inverse again

 

[hawkeye]

If it's a layer mask ctrl+i will invert it. If it's a vector mask, select the path then click the Subtract From Path Area icon at the top.

 

[Hardrocker88]

How weird, I tried that, and it did not work. I even clicked the other options
and it did not work.

 

[iDad]

can you show us a screenshot of your workspace?

 

[TerryC]

sounds like you selected inverse on your selection, right click it and click inverse again

this only works if you've selected the marquee tool.

 

[iDad]

you might want to check that

 

[Hardrocker88]

It's strange. I tired it out on another images, pushing the add to path area, and it worked.
For some reason though, on the images im working on, it doesn't work. So I many have
to start all over i guess, maybe some sort of glitch

 

[iDad]

check the image mode in it in index mode? if so hange it to rgb or what ever it is you need or remove background layer could be locked

 

[TerryC]

check the image mode in it in index mode? if so hange it to rgb or what ever it is you need or remove background layer could be locked

Yikes, I was thinking that same thing. You just beat me to the reply. And I believe we are all using CS5, but I don't believe anything changed between versions on this.

 

[Hardrocker88]

Ya, I guess I was not selecting the mask correctly, but I was able to invert it by clicking the add to path (+) button on the top.
Thanks for all of your help!