Help with Ascension Tutorial color range.

[crky0601]

Hello,

Sorry ahead of time if this is the inappropriate place to post this. I'm a first time user trying to understand making maps in photoshop. Found this website and Ascensions guide Ascension's Atlas Style Tutorial - Revised Presentation + Actions, but I've already run into a snag.

Can someone help me understand why my picture in photoshop doesn't match up with the tutorials

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I followed this step 15:

Select Color Range (layer “Shape Land”) --- Alt -> S -> C
a. Select: Sampled Colors
b. Localized Color Clusters: Unchecked
c. Fuzziness: 1

which is supposed to select black pixels because it is the current foreground color yet the black/white are reversed for me. When I try to okay this step, I get a warning stating that I have no pixels selected.

Thanks for any and all help.