Painting - Problems painting textured walls

I have textured walls and ceilings in my living room / dinette. The texture looks like small bumps that have been flattened out (I don't know what this texture is called). I masked the ceiling with painters tape, then painted with 2 coats of Sherwin-Williams satin latex paint. Everything looked great until I removed the masking, and found that the paint had bled under the tape onto the ceiling. Is there any way to remove this small amount of paint without damaging the old paint on the ceiling, or do I now have to paint the ceiling? I still have more walls to paint -- how can I prevent this from happening again??

You might try a product called Goof-Off to remove the paint from the ceiling.

Although it is troublesome, painting up to the ceiling by hand with a good brush will do fine. It does not have to be perfect to work. That meeting of surfaces is hard to see from the floor, and the lighting is poor. If you cut it in by hand you can see exactly what is going on. If some gets out of hand, you can wipe it off right away, instead of finding it dried later on. If it is not perfect, likely no one will be able to tell. After all, who is looking up there?

Trying to mask a textured surface successfully is challenging. Many use tape to mask between the ceiling and the walls, but the texture works against them all the way.

Just trust yourself to paint carefully. Get a good angled trim brush and take your time.

Hope this helps.

Thanks, Chris. I'll give this a try.