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14. Paint over any masked areas inside the city area.
Painting on a mask with white removes from the
mask area, revealing the masked layer’s pixels.
Paint the mask
As you paint to fine-tune a mask, keep the with white to
following points in mind: reveal areas.
• You can use the bracket keys to enlarge (]) The Brush tool
or reduce ([) the brush size. cursor reflects the
• You can press X to switch the current size of the brush.
foreground and background colors. This Switch Foreground
is very useful to remember when you are and Background
painting on a mask, because you can reset Colors button
the default (black and white) colors, and
switch them as necessary, depending on what you want to accomplish.
• You can also use the Eraser tool on a mask. Be careful, though, because erasing
an area of the mask when the foreground color is white has the same effect as
painting with the background color.

15. With the layer mask selected in the Layers panel, open the Properties
panel (Window>Properties).
Like the Options bar, the Properties
panel is contextual. Different
options are available in the panel
depending on what is selected The Properties panel
in the Layers panel. When a The layer mask must can be used to edit
the selected mask.
layer mask is selected, you can be selected in the
manipulate a variety of properties Layers panel.
related to the selected mask.

The Density slider changes the
opacity of the overall mask. If you reduce the density to 80%, for example, underlying
layers will be 20% visible through the mask. (Don’t confuse this with the opacity of an
alpha channel, which only affects the appearance of the mask on screen.)

16. In the Properties panel, change the Feather value to 25 px.
If you feather a selection, and then make a layer mask from that selection, the
feathering becomes a permanent part of the mask.
The Properties panel allows you to adjust the feathering of a hard-edge mask, then
later change (or remove) the feathering if necessary, without painting on the mask.

Use the Properties panel
to feather the mask edge
nondestructively.

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