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This time I've saved my progress as Second liquification.psd, so called of course, because we have two layers of liquified imagery available to us. Now, the second layer has a black layer mask assigned to it, and that layer mask is active. I've clicked on it to highlight this thumbnail right there, which is very important because now we're going to paint inside of it. The fact that it's black means that everything on this layer is transparent. If we were to paint with white, we would paint the layer in. And I'm going to do that using the Brush tool right here. And you can get to the Brush tool as you can get to all tools inside of Photoshop, by pressing an alphabetic key. And in this case, it's B for Brush. You don't have to press Ctrl+B or Shift+B or anything like that, just the B key by itself, gets you the Brush tool, like so. I've gone ahead and established a large, fairly hard brush. So let me show you how to do that. You go up to the Options bar- and by the way, in case for some…

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