Masking and Brush tool Greying the image
Recently updated my Photoshop to 25.3.1… Previously when I had a mask applied to a layer and I used my brush tool at say 50% with a hardness of say 10-30% to brush away parts of an image to blend with the image underneath it would do it clear - now it seems to be smudging the image to levels of grey versus doing it as a nice clear fade if that makes sense. With this image I've tried RGB and Greyscale mode and get the same effect… What changed? Have reset brushes and preferences to default and same effct.Any ideas how to fix?
Image here you can see I'm trying to brush away this eye is on a seperate layer to blend in with the image underneath but it seems to turning it grey and smudgey looking… frustrating.
Thanks / Jamie

