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8. 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.

9. In the lower half of the Brush Preset Picker, expand the General Brushes
folder and click the Hard Round brush option.

10. In the top half of the Brush Preset picker, change the Size value to 50 px.

Define the brush
size this field.
The Hard Round preset
automatically sets this
Click this arrow to
expand the General field to 100%.
Brushes set.

Click to select
the Hard Round
brush preset.

11. Press Return/Enter to dismiss the Brush Preset picker.

12. With the Brush tool active and Black as the active foreground color, click
and drag over those pixels that you want to add to the mask area.
The Brush tool paints with whatever is defined as the foreground color, which is black,
in this case. Remember — when painting on a mask, black adds to the mask and hides
pixels on the masked layer.

Brush tool cursor

Paint with black to
remove pixels
from the image
(add to the mask).

13. Click the Switch Foreground and Background Colors button near the
bottom of the Tools panel.

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