I’m sorry for being so slow. I honestly don’t know how you’re doing what is shown in your latest examples. I’ve tried recreating it, but still keep getting the background image masked inside my character outline instead of outside.
I have both the outline and the shape as the tool layer, as it looks like it is in yours. I have the original character image hidden and the layers grouped the same way it looks like yours are. But when I choose the background image and the outline and then mask, it deletes everything outside of the outline. If I choose the shape and apply the mask there, it still remains within the outline. If I choose all three layers, I don’t have the option to mask. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong at this point.
