Return to Original layer.
Using any selection tool, select the part of the image you want to change.
Click the Quick Mask mode button
in the toolbox.
Color overlay (similar to a rubylith) covers and protects the area outside the selection. Selected areas are left unprotected by this mask. By default, Quick Mask mode colors the protected area using a red, 50% opaque overlay.
To edit the mask, select a painting tool from the toolbox. The swatches in the toolbox automatically become black and white.
Paint with white to select more of an image (the color overlay is removed from areas painted with white). To deselect areas, paint over them with black (the color overlay covers areas painted with black). Painting with gray or another color creates a semitransparent area, useful for feathering or anti-aliased effects. (Semitransparent areas may not appear to be selected when you exit Quick Mask Mode, but they are.)
Click the Standard Mode button
in the toolbox to turn off the quick mask and return to your original image. A selection border now surrounds the unprotected area of the quick mask.
If a feathered mask is converted to a selection, the boundary line runs halfway between the black pixels and the white pixels of the mask gradient. The selection boundary indicates the transition between pixels that are less than 50% selected and those that are more than 50% selected.
Apply the desired changes to the image. Changes affect only the selected area.
Copy and paste flower into a new layer.