Technique #4. Making Your Own Brush

This technique involves painting on a layer mask, but using a brush that you define from the image itself. As with the previous techniques, this one starts the same way: creating a layer mask on a copy of the Background layer.

key concepts:

layer masks

define brush

Step One.
Press Command-J (PC: Control-J) to duplicate the Background layer.

Step Two.
From the Image menu, choose Canvas Size (or press ...

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