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What program (on the off chance it's not Photoshop) and version are you using?
The clip-masking can be done at any time, all that does is mask off the layer above it to only affect the area from the lower blow it. In a nutshell, if the lower layer has a square, but you make something that's bigger than the square in a layer on top of it, then group it, it'll show everything from the above layer, but restricted to the shape square (not a folder, but it'll be under Layer > Create Clipping Mask ).
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If not then,
Okay, I'll talk this down to a science here, so you can (hopefully) follow along easily
I get out the pen tool and make a path, selecting an area slightly within the black lineart border where I want my highlights to go, and leading the rest of the path outside my lineart where I connect the ends to make a full complete path (where it gets ride of those little square dots as soon as you connect the other end). Sill on the pen tool, I then right click and click "make selection" in the options menu that pops up, and click "ok". And then I get the black-and-white moving line, or the "marching ants", as you say. If I try to color in that path line(s), nothing happens. No color, no highlights (and I'm on a layer that I have titled for that purpose, yet nothing). This has been going on for a while now, and I have no clue in the free world on how to fix this.
A simple fix would be Select > Inverse. A way to avoid having to do that all the time though has to do with what you do before you plot down your points.
According to this answer I found- [link] it's a simple fix.
As far as I know, when you're in your pen tool doing your path, you have 4 settings that are the following and what they look like as buttons on top where you would adjust your brush size (when you're not right clicking):
- Add to path area (+) two squares together
- Subtract from path area (-) an invisible square in front of a solid square
- Intersect Path Areas two invisible squares making a smaller solid square between them
- Exclude overlapping path areas two solid squares making an invisible square
The above are buttons listed from left to right in that order.
When you're making your path, you may have it set on the 2nd one, and you just have to change it to the first one, and you shouldn't have to keep going to inverse your selection whenever you use it.
6 years later, and this tutorial is still useful.