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4. Carefully review the image to find any problems with the existing mask.
Changing the mask opacity makes it easier to find areas in the sky that need to be
masked, as well as areas in the city that need to be removed from the mask.

These areas
should be added
to the mask.

These areas should
be removed from
the mask.

5. Choose the Brush tool in the Tools panel.
6. Click the Default Foreground and Background Colors button at the bottom
of the Tools panel.
If you look at the layer mask thumbnail for the layer, you can see it’s just a black-and-
white shape. White areas of the thumbnail show which parts of the layer are visible in
the main document; the black parts of the mask hide the associated areas of the layer.
This is an important distinction: painting with black on a layer mask hides those areas;
painting with white on a layer mask reveals those areas.

Click here to
open the Brush
Preset picker.
Note:

You will use brushes
Brush tool extensively in Project 7:
House Painting; for now,
you only need to know
how to select a brush and
how to paint with it.

Default Foreground
and Background
Colors button

7. In the Options bar, open the Brush Preset picker to access the tool options.
This panel shows the different brushes that are included with Photoshop. The default
brush set includes a number of specific-diameter hard- and soft-edge brushes, as well as
some artistic options. A number below a brush icon shows the size of the brush; if you
click a specific brush in the panel, the same number displays in the Size field.

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