Help! Paintbrush not working.

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Zoe
Jul 1, 2006
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Okay, I feel like such an idiot but-

I am in Photoshop 7 painting over a masked layer so that I can blend it with the previous layer. Things are going great. Then, I must have hit something with my hand because the brush just stopped painting. I have checked to make sure that I accidentally did not select anything and that was not the problem. I am pulling my hair out!!!! Please – any tips or advice would be great.
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Zoe
Jul 1, 2006
actually, I cannot paint in any layer! What have I done!
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Zoe
Jul 1, 2006
Ok I am figuring out that it is something to do with my color pallete. It is only showing gray scales. Obviously I am a novice- I don’t know what to do in this instance.
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nomail
Jul 1, 2006
Zoe wrote:

Ok I am figuring out that it is something to do with my color pallete. It is only showing gray scales. Obviously I am a novice- I don’t know what to do in this instance.

If you are painting a mask, the color palette SHOULD show only gray scales. A mask cannot have any colors. You may have changed the opcacity of the brush to 0%.

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Zoe
Jul 2, 2006
Umm, yeah, I am a bit slow when I get frustrated. LOL! I did figure that out with the color, etc. However, my opacity is at 100% as well as my flow. I still don’t know what I did to stop the brush from painting.
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Zoe
Jul 2, 2006
Okay, I finally figured it out. It turns out that I had accidentally selected "shape dynamics" under the brush tip shape menu. Simple and obvious, yet I didn’t realize it. So, I learned a new thing today! Thanks!
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Bob Somethingorother
Jul 2, 2006
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"Zoe" wrote:

Okay, I finally figured it out. It turns out that I had accidentally selected "shape dynamics" under the brush tip shape menu. Simple and obvious, yet I didn’t realize it. So, I learned a new thing today! Thanks!

Great. Now maybe you can learn how to quote a few lines of the post you are responding to so the world can know what you are talking about.

If you are interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netiquette

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