Photoshop Top 40 #31 - The Brush Tool

The modest brush tool is one of the deepest, most versatile tools in Photoshop. It's not only a terrific painting tool, but it is also invaluable for masking, as this video demonstrates.

America likes its lists, and here's another one. Imaging expert and award-winning author Deke McClelland presents his list of the top 40 features in Photoshop—beginning with #40 and working his way up to #1—one weekly video at a time. Some are tools, others are commands, still others are conceptual. All are invaluable. Learn these 40 features and you'll know Photoshop.

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[Melerb721]

Nice i like this Video . . helps me to be more artistic in the way of modern technologies . . Thanks

[divakaneva]

I got it he made it look like you just run over once with the brush not so have to continue going over think he could have mentioned that step is crucial to the process I hate half the information tutorials

[divakaneva]

got this far to find that this does not paint black like his does it does just as I thought makes it look grey pfft

[moonflower0924]

overlay brush on mask is awesome! thanks!

[Danger2Mike]

Put your cursor over the channel mask, Hold the Ctrl key and Click. A selection will appear, now click on the the layer that you want to apply the mask and click the icon/button "create layer mask". It should turn into a mask. :)

[aaaashy]

so now, how do you get this channel mask to become a REAL mask in layers (if you have a multilayer image)????????