Joss Pittman

I greatly apologize. I thought the black concealed the layers under the pixel layer. I now realize it conceals the layer the mask is applied to, thus revealing what's underneath it.

I'm confused. I have a image of a shark under a black pixel layer. When I create a mask on the black pixel layer and apply the paint brush tool using the black color, it reveals the shark, but white just reapplies the black pixel layer.

I don't know why my software is doing the opposite of what I was told. I thought black conceals, white reveals. Somehow it's doing the opposite, where black is revealing and white is concealing.

I don't want to see it.

Thank you so much for the swift reply! How did you make the gradient and brush transparent? I just started using the software a week ago, so I appreciate your patience with my unlearned questions. THANK YOU AGAIN!

I want to be able to do an effect similar to the one I posted, but have it like a transparent gradient in Photo V2. Does V2 have something like this that you showed from Designer?

I don't know if this is the right place to put this question. I'm brand new here but would love some feedback: How did the artist do this effect with the image (circled in black). Seems like it might have been done with a brush, but I've been fooling around with brushes but haven't been able to repeat this effect to success. Anyone veterans know? THANKS!