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

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
with white to
reveal areas.
The Brush tool
cursor reflects the
size of the brush.

Switch Foreground
and Background
Colors button

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 in the Layers panel. The layer The Properties panel
can be used to edit
When a layer mask is selected, you mask must be the selected mask.
can manipulate a variety of properties selected in the
related to the selected mask. Layers panel.
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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