Reflection Questions:

     Masks allow you to selectively edit parts of your image rather than the whole thing. You can also lighten or sharpen certain portions in your image. Besides, it also allows you to control a layer's level of transparency.

    

    In masks, white represents that the edit is visible, black represents that the edit is not visible and the color red shows us the selected portion. The tools that i used in mask mode were the magnetic lasso tool and the magnifying tool. The magnetic lasso tool was the best choice of tool to feather my selection because the other tools were not helpful to select the hairs of the dog, which the magnetic lasso tool could. The magnifying tool helped me to take a closer look of the selection and to figure out if my selections were going good enough or not. The adjustment layers completely changed the color and the view of my selected portion in the image. I find masks much more easier than lassos because masks does not take a lot of time whereas, the lasso tools takes a lot of time selecting the portion perfectly.

    

    Therefore, masks are very helpful as it allows you to hide parts of the layers without harming a single pixel. As one can see how helpful masks are in Photoshop.