Building and editing a mask

Now that we've been introduced to the concept of a mask, let's take a look at …how we can modify a mask. How we can increase or decrease it's size …and also how we can change the edge so we can have a edge which is harder or softer. …We'll be working with this photograph here and again in order to keep things …simple let's start off in the same way. Here we'll choose our Elliptical Marquee Tool. …And then next, we're going to click and drag over the image in order to make a …selection of a portion of the image. This case I've selected this area.…

Next, we'll create a layer mask. To do so we'll navigate to the Layers …panel and then we'll simply click on the icon that allows us to create a layer mask. …In this case the mask is revealing this area. …It's concealing the rest of the image. Well I want to modify this edge. …There are a couple of ways that we can do this. …One technique that we can use is to actually paint right on the mask. …Here, if we grab our Brush tool by selecting it in the Tools panel or by …