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Painting-In

Some of the effects in PhotoTools are designated as Paint-in effects. You can tell if an effect is a Paint-in effect if it has the Paint-in icon

next to it in the Result pane of the Library. When you add a Paint-In effect to your stack you will see no difference in the appearance of your image. You will need to select the Masking Brush tool and paint in the effect where you want it to be. You will see an alert dialog telling you that you have added a Paint-In effect. Follow these steps to paint an effect in:

Select a Paint-In effect from the Library and press the Add to Stack button
Select the Masking Brush (note the brush mode is automatically set to Paint-In)
Paint in the After side of the preview window to see your effect appear. You may need to adjust the brush size and opacity to get the control you desire
If you make a mistake with the brush you can toggle to Paint-Out and paint your mistake away.

The Masking Brush requires a video card that supports OpenGL 2.0 or higher. If PhotoTools detects that you have an incompatible video card it will warn you on launch and when you add a Paint-In effect. You can learn more about supported video cards here.