Technique #6. Painting Along a Layer Mask’s Path

Here’s another variation on painting the edges of a layer mask—automatic painting, thanks to a path. As before, we’ll create a copy of the image and add a layer mask, but then we’ll create and use a path to do the work for us.

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 ...

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