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5. 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.

6. Choose the Brush tool in the Tools panel.
7. 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,
while painting with white on a layer mask reveals those areas.

Click here to
open the Brush
Preset picker.

Brush tool

Default Foreground
and Background
Colors button

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