Understanding Feathered Selections

Question

This is a tough one to explain. I'm working on a mask and I have a feathered selection. I'm using hard brush, 100% Hard Round. When I click or brush over the selection border, I see solid paint and then the feathered area near the selection. But if I paint over that area again, I see the feathered area start to extend, like it is building up. Or like the nature of the selected area changes depending on what is already painted in it. The same thing happens if I just dump paint. Initial dump creates a painted area with soft areas, but if I keep dumping within the same selection, the borders keep extending.

I'm attaching images of the paint-dump scenario. Exact same selection, just multiple dumps (The last image was exaggerated with about 20 dumps). I guess I'd like this explained, so I know how to get my desired results. With the paint dump, I would have expected that after one dump, nothing would change with other dumps, like with a non-feathered selection.

Thanks!

Chuck Uebele · Accepted Answer

Look at it this way. the selection allows a certain anoumt of "paint" to get through each time you paint over it. It doesn't just limit this amount to a one time application. So in theory, a 50% selection will allow an application of 50% more of the paint to get through every time you paint over it.

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