Blur Gallery - Using Masks

I have been working with the blur gallery using path and spin blur. After adding the blur, I open a mask to adjust the amount of the effect in specific areas. With a black brush, the mask will remove the effect, but with a white brush, it will not put the effect back, as it should with a mask. Has anyone else noticed this? Radial blur does the same thing.

You nailed it. I was in multiply blend mode. I changed it to normal and the mask works normally. Problem solved, thank you.

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