The Way of the Digital Photographer: Walking the Photoshop post-production path to more creative photography

Using the Brush Tool

The Brush Preset picker lets you quickly get going with brushes in Photoshop. You can use it to set the width of the brush, how hard the brush is (the higher the percentage, the harder the brush), and the brush tip shape.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

—George Santayana

To recapitulate, layer masks determine how much of a layer shows in a final version of an image. A black layer mask conceals the layer it is associated with—and white or gray applied to that layer mask wholly or partially reveals the layer. Conversely, a white layer reveals the associated layer, with black or gray selectively ...