I wanted the select a couple of faces and isolate them together with an image plane but it's not working. I can't select the face and the image plane simultaneously since I have to go to object mode to select the image plane. I tried selecting the faces that I want hidden and placing them on a layer and turning the…
stay in object mode as throttlekitty suggested - select the image plane and your object - rmb on your object - faces - shift select faces and enter isolate mode.
With Select by Object Type on, I'm able to be in face mode of an object and select the image plane for isolation without changing mode. Also, you can hide faces with ctrl-h if you're on 2016.5 or higher.
Oh I see, thanks! I guess I was too used in mapping object, vertex, edge and faces on f1-f4 I forgot I could actually right click and do it from there.
I'm very sorry I didn't see this reply, there was a blank space below my post, I thought there was no reply. Regardless, thank you, the ctrl + h option seems to work, I tried going select by object type but I can only select the image plane and the whole mesh, I could touch its faces.