Layer mask error in photoshop

I have made a video, I've tried everything I can think of.
It doesn't happen all the time, or the same layer set up. I'll be editing a layer, and all of a sudden a layer mask is activated, and it erases everything. All my layer info is still there, but a mask is active.
If I make no sense, watch the video, apparently I'm the only one on planet earth with this problem, I've never found anyone else with this issue.
Yes, I've tried defaulting the preferences
Yes, I've tried turning on basic mode.
Nothing works!
Paint Tool SAI is looking awfully awesome right now.

Here's the PSE 7 help page. As Mark states in his post, it's Layer<Group with Previous. I would assume the tutorial must have been written with PSE 8 in mind.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/PhotoshopElements/7.0_Win/WSae2ea3b149d0c3591ae939f103860b3d59 -7f85.html
Adobe changed the command's name from clipping group to clipping mask. They work the same exact way only the name is different. *Keep this name change in mind when you watch or read tutorials on the web.
I think this command's name change was made to help match commands between various Adobe products.

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Here's the PSE 7 help page. As Mark states in his post, it's Layer<Group with Previous. I would assume the tutorial must have been written with PSE 8 in mind.
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My layer mask is not working, not sure what's happening. I'm using CS 4 . i want to use blending effect so i place the photos on a white background. I click layer mask on each photo, select brush tool brush on the photo but is not working, is either appear black or white color when i use the brush paint on it. If not wrong, the foreground color should be grey & white in layer mask function but it appear black & white instead. Please see the screenshot below. Please help, thank you

Hi, I will try explain your problem.
In your posted example we can see see that you have three layers in the layers panel.
On each one of layers, we can see, on the left side, that there is the Layer Thumbnail, that is a showing the actual image of your layer and then a Layer Mask Thumbnail (the white rectangle, on the right side).
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In CS6, the target indicator is different, look in my image, we can see that the layer mask is targeted thanks to the white corners: I was then able to mask part of the black layer by targeting the Layer Mask in the layer panel, and then painting on the image where I want to hide the layer.
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See these help documents: Layes Basics: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-78e3a.h tml
Layer masks: http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/masking-layers.html
Some search results for "Layer Masks Basics" in Photoshop help: http://community.adobe.com/help/search.html?q=layer+mask+basics&x=0&y=0&lbl=photoshop_prod uct_adobelr&hl=en_US&lr=en_US&self=0&area=0
(It is one of the best ways to search for tutorials or help files)
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Ok, thank you very much mr. Chris Cox.
As i understand i can use different layers and masks, in document with model, and then merge it and it will project on mapping texture. But i think that it a bit uncomfortably. Because, for example i have model of gun. I want to paint rust in some places of it. How i usually do it. I make new layer filling it all by texture of rust, creating mask, filling it black (hide) and then painting on mask by white color in places where i want rust. And i want do exactly same but on 3d model, because it more simple and comfortably.
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