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To your question, it sounds like you may either be not clicking the Invert Mask checkbox, or maybe your Sea channel itself is inverted (to which the immediate solution would be to uncheck the Invert Mask checkbox). The only part of your rivers that *should* vanish in this step are the parts that bleed into your ocean/sea. Hope that helps, if not continue the thread and we'll keep working through it!
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