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Layers, Masks, and Blending 29

Editing on the mask

When you create your mask you immediately enter Edit Mask mode, where you

can use the full range of painting tools, selection options, flood fills, gradient

fills, and effects to alter the mask's grayscale values. These manipulations cause

corresponding changes in opacity, which in turn changes the appearance of the

pixels on the layer itself.

The image window's titlebar shows "Mask", indicating that a mask is currently

being edited. The Color tab switches to Grayscale mode when you're editing a

mask, and reverts to the previous setting when you exit Edit Mask mode. This

means anything you paste from the Clipboard onto the mask will automatically

be converted to grayscale.

As long as you are editing the mask, you're only seeing a preview of

changes on the layer.

You can switch out of Edit Mask mode at any time to edit the active layer

directly (or any other part of the image), then switch back to resume work on the

mask.

To edit the active layer:

• Click the layer thumbnail to the left of the Mask thumbnail. The

thumbnail is then bordered in white.

To edit the active layer's mask:

• Click the mask thumbnail.

In Edit Mask mode, you're normally viewing not the mask, but rather the effects

of changes "as if" you were making them on the layer below. Adding a Reveal All

mask can be a bit confusing, because there's initially no evidence the mask is

there at all (i.e. the layer appears exactly the same as it did before you added the

mask)!

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