Photoshop Creative

I ran across a blog a few weeks ago that gave a keyboard shortcut regarding masking. The shortcut was to turn your masked area red like a quick mask. I didn't write the shortcut down and for the life of me I can't seem to turn anything up when I google it. Does anyone know this shortcut. I have tried using the quick selection tool but I don't need a selection, just need to see where I need to fine tune the mask. I know one exists because I tried it and thought huh! I just didn't think huh long enought to write it down !!!

If it is the quick mask you are looking for it is the letter "Q"

It exists, Dawn,

I'll be darned if I can remember what it is. Suzi, it's not quick mask, it's something else. I saw it explained in one of the old -- real old -- video tutorials for PSE5 on the other forum site. Just can't remember.

Rusty

How about this

Alt-Shift click on the mask icon to see the mask as a red rubylith overlay

That's it

Boy, Suzi, are you good or what

Rusty

Thanks, Rusty but google deserves all the credit.

Rusty and Suzi thank you so much for the help! I thought I had tried every combo key stroke known -- I obviously skipped over the Alt-Shift combo. I guess I wasn't putting in the right keywords when I was googling either -- it has been bugging me for a week!

mine turned red the other day and for the life of me, I had no idea what I had done.

I was copying some masks from one layer to another and sometimes it would go red and sometimes it wouldn't. I couldn't figure out why. I must have been fat fingering the keyboard or something!

And, thanks to the wonderful world of Adobe, pressing the \ key also does it if the layer you are on has a mask. Which is a more likely FF (fat finger) possibility!

Pressing it again turns it off