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The brush I mentioned.

Basically I want to add a gradient effect to a brush. If I open a new file, fill the background black, use the brush (solid white), and then create a new layer, add a gradient, and set that layer's blending option to Color it gives a really nice gradient effect to the brush. The problem is that if the background isn't pure black, the Color layer is being applied to the entire image. I just want it to apply the layer that has the brush.

I feel like I'm repeating myself but I don't know how to simplify the question. I'm sure it's something really basic to be able to set a layer to just affect one other layer.