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Painting away gaps in a layer mask

Painting away gaps in a layer mask - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Advanced

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Painting away gaps in a layer mask

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll take our less than perfect layer mask so far, and we'll clean it up quite nicely, and we'll be doing so almost exclusively with the brush tool. Alright so I'll switch over to my progress bar and I'm going to zoom in on the models face. So I can demonstrate a couple of things not to do when painting inside of a layer mask. First, you do want to select the brush tool, which you can get by pressing the B key. The thing about the brush is that by default it has a soft edge. And so if I were to increase the size of my brush by pressing the right bracket key a few times. And then I were to paint inside of this eye over here, it appears that I'm getting a kind of forgiving glowing effect, but that is not anything you want from a layer mask. You want nice, sharp, accurate edges. And so I'll go ahead and press control Z, or command Z on a Mac, to undo that change. And I'll right click inside of the image window and I'll crank that hardness value up to 80%…

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