Photoshop Layer Mask

[Chilinny]

I was working with two images and I wanted to hide certain areas of one image. So, when I create a layer mask then select the black brush the areas I intended to hide turn into grey spots and transparent!! Help!!

[Chuck Uebele]

It would help to see your entire scene with the layer panels. But that sounds like how masks work. A black brush turns areas transparent. Not sure about the gray part.

[Chilinny]

Does this help?

[Chuck Uebele]

It looks like your flow on your brush is at 41%, so it's painting a gray on your mask rather than black.

[Trevor.Dennis · Accepted solution]

Chuck, I'd love to know how that brush works?  It looks like the brush is actually laying down the halftone effect, as it looks to be showing the same pattern in the layer mask.  There's obviously some guess work going on with the tiny size.   I guess I have seen brush presets that will produce that effect using dual brush, but I tend to associate the look more with Krita.

I'm going to have to go hunt down some similarly textured presets now.  Chilinny   can you show us the brush panel for that brush please?

[Trevor.Dennis]

Well I don't have any presets like that already installed.  Krita has lots of them though.

This Help page says how to do it with Photoshop

Create textured brushes in Photoshop

[Chuck Uebele]

Ummm, Trevor, I didn't look that close with my phone. Thought it was the transparency checkerboard.

[Chilinny]

Thank you, I figured out what I did wrong. In the brush settings (folder next to the brush size) the texture was checked. All I had to do was turn it off...whoops.

[Chilinny]

I had set the flow to 100% but no luck