Trouble fading layer with layer mask

I'm trying to blend a photo with a background color. I select the new layer mask (selected), I select the gradient tool (color into transparent), and then draw a line to fade the image layer into the background later and it does nothing. Why isn't this working? Every tutorial I have looked at tells me to do these steps. How do I fix this??

I don't see any black on your mask. It should look something like this: Whatever is painted black on the mask will be masked on the layer, depending on the transparancy of the black.

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I'm a student assistant for a beginning Digital Art class, we teach the basics of Photoshop to create artwork. We recently upgraded to CS4 and are now having trouble with the layer masks. Instead of showing the normal window were you can see what exactly is being masked, we only see the layer mask icon. (The square with the white circle in the middle)
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Thanks,
You know what is weird is that I tried on my laptop to recreate the same icon with it, (by choosing none for the thumbnails) and it made me realize. I can see the images of the layers at school with the mask icon next to it. With this none option you can't see either, interesting...
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Has anyone else come across a problem where Photoshop files grow in size much faster than expected, especially when adding layer masks?
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The file in question although large, is similar dimensions, resolution, and number of layers as other projects that have been worked on and all the usual thing have been checked like resolution, colour mode, bit depth and the image has also been cropped so there's nothing outside of the page.
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JJMack: I control click the layer mask to select everything in it. The original layer does have some fethering to the file but i cant see why it would fill everythign the same shade of gray, and then not let me paint over it with black. This normally works for me and this issue is quite new.
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I open an image using the "open in external editor" command (typically a RAW file converted to a TIFF), edit in Photoshop and save the file (as a TIFF, I do not use PSD format)
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