Use Brush Tool To Cut Out Area

Hello,
I am using CS2. I have a brush I have designed and wish to use it like a cookie cutter to cut out the pattern from a solid object. It is the outline of a dawg paw print and I want to stamp it out as a solid (not just outline) from the image below it. Think of it as stamping out the footprints from the image below so that it is now a transparency to an image in an even lower layer:
Dawg paw print
.......... base image
..................... background to show through the paw prints stamped out
I'm sure I have done it the wrong way since I cannot get it to work. I've never really used paths much (except following step by step instructions), but I have a inkling that this should be done with paths. I've played around with trying paths, but it turns my soft curves into angular lines. Plus, when I use my brush, it looks like it is a fully closed drawing, as it holds colors just fine.
Could I get some guidance here please?
TIA,

On a side note, pathing is a usefull tool as well but not in the way you want to use it.
When you create a path you can either fill that path or follow the path. usefull for making many thing such as clothing stitches, etc
Example:
but when doing pathing you are basicly starting with a shape, any shape be it something you highlighted on your screen created or got from the custom shape tool.
The path uses a brush to follow or fill that shape that you made the path.. esentually pathing is , the brush stroke path, where you want it to paint and not the brush its self.
Don't mind the typos.

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Ok. Thanks for your great tips as I'll see where I can go from here.
Ugoharris.
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:46:28 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Using selection tool to Cut image into pieces...
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