Masks in CS6

I was trying to learn from this video about masking. It says it is CS5.
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/the-russell-brown-show/masking-basics-in-photoshop-cs5/
When I go to the layers there is no masks. When I go to the windows, no masks.
A post said that it was now under properties, but when I go there, it sasys no properties.
So I cannot even get started. My idea was to take this image and repalce the screening area with a green background, in a manner that I thought might work similar to the video. the quick mask selected the desired area well and then I could go no farther.

What you did looks great, but I still can't get started.
The instructions say:
In the Layers panel, select the layer or group.
Do one of the following:
To create a mask that reveals the entire layer, click the Pixel Mask button in the Masks panel, or click the Add Layer Mask button in the Layers panel.
Again I'm not seeing these buttons in my layer panel.
Both tutorials start off this way and so I'm stuck.
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Kenneth Mcitalo wrote:
"If you have CS5.5 or earlier versions, create a shape and drag that shape to the layer you want to mask, remove the fill layer and you'll see what i mean. Thats what i want to be able to do in CS6.
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thomasbricker wrote:
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JJ, line 4 works in CS3. are you sure the layer is targeted?
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