Adjustment mask not taking black paint from the brush

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Nathan_Stiles
May 17, 2007
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I just got a 30 day evaluation copy of CS2 on Windows Vista after spending years w/ Jasc’s Paint Shop Pro. Now I’m finding it difficult to do my most routine tasks.

I have a Curves Layer on a jpg background. I want to mask out it’s effect on part of the image, so I choose the paint brush, color=black, set the hardness and opacity (100% for right now) adn try to paint on the mask– nothing.

I do a sanity check on the background: nice black streaks. I can use the gradient tool to mask the adjustment later; however, no mater if I use the black brush or white… the effect is still a white brush. This is causing me much confusion.

Thanks,
Nathan

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Bernie
May 17, 2007
Did you check the brush transfer mode? It should be set to ‘Normal’
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Andrei_Doubrovski
May 18, 2007
Nathan,
Make sure your layer mask is active (click on the mask – and not on the layer – thumbnail)

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Nathan_Stiles
May 18, 2007
Found the problem. User error. I wasn’t actually changing the foreground color… I was just selecting the background color– doh! The interface is so different!

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