Incorrect work with quick masks in Photoshop. What to do?

Question

Adobe Photoshop

She will understand what kind of buggy version I have or what, eternal petty misunderstandings.
In general, when in the lesson the author makes a selection with a color range of a picture with a flower, its background is highlighted in red and the object that we want to highlight remains its native color

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On the contrary, the flower itself is very badly highlighted in red (the object we want to highlight), plus grains on the background. Only if you activate the "invert" checkbox will it change places.

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An absolute disaster.
If this can still be tolerated somehow, then when you apply a quick mask to the selected area (the Q button), everything is fine with the author - the selected object itself is filled with red.

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Everything is not like with people - the background is highlighted in red again, and the flower (object) remains its own color.

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Is it possible to somehow fix this with the / keys in the settings?
Or is it a bug of an unlicensed program?

Answer 1

I found how to figure it out with the color range, but I don’t understand how to put it humanly in the color range

Answer 2

Double-click on the quick mask icon on the toolbar and choose what will be tinted with color: the masked area or the selected area. You need Selected Areas.