Now it is official.

[Physics_Guru]

This was mentioned in another thread but I wanted to make it official.....

MASKING HELP PLEASE!

And while your at it, please explain this soft brush, hard brush, paint with what where and how?? stuff. :)

Pretty pretty please? :)

[Silky]

I'm working on a tutorial for layer masking now. This will be an easy one to do, so it won't take too long. :)

[Silky]

Okay, PG...the masking tutorial is up and active. Hope it helps. :)

[Physics_Guru]

You are awesome. Will go through it shortly.

[down2earth2]

Soft brush, hard brush. Several tools are applied with a brush: Heal, Brush/Pencil, Stamp, Art History Brush, Eraser, Blur, and Burn/Dodge.When using any of these tools, the brush palette is available by clicking the Brush size square (top left). Click on the brush and a window drops down with your brush palette.

There's 2 sliders: one for diameter, and one for hardness. Hardness is about the amount that the edge of the brush is feathered. 0% is deeply feathered (soft), 100% is no feather at all (hard). See picture below.

Hope this helps. Have fun!