Digital BW, The Print

First you need a layer mask. If your layer doesn't have one already,
select the layer, click the "Add new mask" icon on the bottom of the
Layers pane.

Now click on the mask that was created in the Layers pane. Draw with a
paintbrush on the image (you're now drawing on the mask). White allows
the layer to show through, black prevents it from showing through.

Adding density to a layer's mask involves simply painting the mask
with black (or gray) to reduce the opacity of that layer.

-Pieris
digital darkroom blog: www.pmb.net/darkroom

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "nsams2002"
<normsams@w...> wrote:
> 
> I'm experimenting with the Caponigro black-and-white conversion(s).  
> He writes:  "...you should keep the opacity of the layer at the 
> highest setting needed for any one area within the image and reduce 
> the opacity in other areas by adding density to the mask."
> 
> How does one add density to the mask?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Norm