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• Hello... I'm having a problem with ps cc ever time that I create a layer mask

  Hello... I'm having a problem with ps cc ever time I create a layer mask and choose the brush in a first time, he began to remove the areas IM brushing away then stopped. After pressing X button was able to brush the image and then he kept repeating the process of pressing X and it pixlelated areas of the image. And now the masks brush and layer don't work at all whenever I start a new project.

  Hi dtain,

  Can you please try reset tool.

  To reset a tool, you must first have the selected tool. Then Ctrl-click (Windows users: right click) the button tool preset in the Tool Options bar.

  

  When you click this button, you will see a small menu and you can select Tool Reset to reset the current tool to its default value or reset all tools to deliver all the tools to its default value. Once selected, the tool will act as the first time you have used it.

  

  Using this simple method to reset your tool with a single click, you can quickly remedy any situation where the tool does not correctly and to maintain the flow of creativity going.

  ~ Jitendra

• Display problem in 16-bit mode of layer mask

  With the new version of CC 2015 of Photoshop, I came across a weird problem in layer mask mixture. Here is an example, what it looks like:

  

  I opened a raw file (.dng) from Lightroom (16 bit, ProPhoto), created a black layer mask and began to paint with pure white. As you can see, the transparency model in the background is always visible, even if the density of the mask is 100% and the white brush was normal and opacity and flow were both 100%. The white layer mask doesn't seem to be completely opaque.

  But it's more weird. Then, I put two rectangles in the image. This is the checkerboard disappear, but the color of the rectangles has no effect on the image on the top. So the white layer mask is opaque and not fully opaque at the same time!

  I then saved the image in jpeg format and the picture looked like it should be there:

  

  Apparently, the question has something to do with rendering on screen, not the content of the actual image. I also noticed, that changing the picture mode to 16 bits to 8 bits makes the disappearance of the problem. But as I also pay for the 16-bit mode, I would use it...

  Everyone found this and you are able to reproduce this behavior? Or am I missing some setting somewhere? Can anyone suggest a solution, or should I just wait patiently as the bug fix?

  Layer masks and alpha channels are all 8 bits, regardless of the number of image bits.

  What you have tried to solve this problem?  Your video card driver is entirely up to the site of the manufacturer of the card?

  What operating system do you use?

• Problems with adjustment layer masks

  I have serious problems with adjustment layer masks. I have converted a photo black and white usiing one adjustment layer and trying to return to colored eyes. My form tool is selected, the color black is my first plan and target my layer mask. Coloring on the contour of the eyes a brownish/sepia-like color is revealed instead of blue (the color of the eyes). When I on the skin a reddish colour. In this case on THREE platforms... PSE6 CS3 AND CS5.5.

  I have reset my tools. Close the program. Uninstalled and reinstalled twice (PSE6 and CS3). And you have installed a trial version and reset preferences in CS5.5 (just to see if I could overcome my problem). I also reset the default preferences in CS5.5.

  Recently, I uninstalled a trial version of PSE10 (a week ago give or take and I think that I have chosen to remove preferences... do not know well).

  OS: Vista

  Browser: Chrome

  Thanks in advance for your help.

  Katherine

  Yes, I figured that the surrounding grayish area would give the impression that the color of the skin is too orange/high heat, and without external tone, the eye color looks different.

  Katherine, take a piece of paper, make a big hole like brush strokes and place it on the corrected image. This is not the colors are the same as on the image corrected, now? (Well, there should be a gray piece of paper to get exactly the same result)

  It's an optical illusion, like this: http://capslove.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/optical-illusion/ where the eyes of the same color green or cyan according to its surrounding areas. Your mind compensates for the colors and the tricks you into believing that they are different in picture one / two, skin color lighter and less saturated than in your second picture image.

  Knowing this, you can use another adjustment layer, to drive the color where you want (to the soft blue brighter, more saturated) or skin made down the color that appears too bright.

  If the other members of the forum are not paid in graphic design and the influence of surrounding the optical tricks colors/classic, it doesn't surprise me that they are consistent with the description you give, especially if you do ask them 'the skin looks too orange.

  This is why it is recommended to have a photo studio (or the room in what you use Photoshop) with gray walls, why Photoshop interface is neutral blue-grey and not bright pink, etc.

  (If you work on a Pc, select a black theme without transparency for Vista/7, or on a mac, select the choice of interface of graphite, as it could also mislead you.)

  Some use a grey full desktop picture.

  Thanks for the props, guys!

• New layer on a mask layer causes problems

  I have a layer mask that shows/loads a flv imported inside.

  the hidden layer has an empty picture-key with the following code in it...

  var myLoader:Loader = new Loader();
  addChild (myLoader);
  var url: URLRequest = new URLRequest ("mymovie.swf");
  myLoader.load (url);

  What happens when I add a new layer to my main flash, just above the mask layer film, would damage the film. Instead of loading in the mask, it loads above all. Why does this happen?

  When you dynamically add things on the stage, they don't have a house in the timeline panel.  In addition, place the code in a particular layer does not designate this layer containing some content could process the code.  You will need to do is dynamically mask is added to the content loaded or load content in a MovieClip (a blank) you set manually in the layer being masked... (using movieclip.addChild (myLoader)... metaphorically speaking)

• Problems with PS CS5 - cannot add a gradient layer transparent to a layer mask - please help

  My company has just upgraded us to cs5 on our macs. I've been working along in photoshop and do not know if I hit something inadvertently or what, but all of a sudden I can't add a black transparent gradient to a layer mask. Ive searched autour similarly saved out and reloaded the gradients of my pc (which has the black to transparent gradient in the gradient editor & the process works very well).

  Funny is that in the mac gradient selector, black to transparent gradient is black and solid white, but the name of it is 'transparent black' in the editor. Ive tried

  I guess my questions would be how could you make a transparent gradient, or how would call a zero gradients by default because every time I have remove all the gradients to add a new file .grd of my pc, it shows not yet degraded.

  Its amazing how such a small thing like this allows saving a lot of time and feeding me I can not get this to work

  Thanks in advance, Mark

  Try trashing the preferences file. (Hold down shift + Option + command keys as you launch Photoshop. You will have a small OK box delete your preferences file)

  EDIT:

  the correct answer a few seconds late!

• a curves layer mask editing problem

  I'm trying to edit a layer mask to add more contrast to it.  When I go to curves I can't layer mask channel in the drop-down list in the dialoge of curves.

  I want to add contrast to a mask to a layer of noise reduction.

  Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

  just do what the mask is active and no layer (it should have a border, click the mask thumbnail, if it's not) and then go to Image-> adjustments-> curves

• Select, copy and paste layer masks

  Hello

  I am a beginner when it comes to Photoshop, so my vocabulary can be a little off. I'll try my best to explain my situation. Let me know if I do not make sense, or if you need more details.

  I have problems using a mask to create a selection that I can then use to paste a background image in an another PSD. I have isolated the part of the image that I want to select using a layer mask successfully, but when I try to copy/paste from an another PSD, the image appears as the "shadow" or the black silhouette that I used for the background of the original PSD image through the mask.

  It is logical that this is happening because I select the mask which is only a black outline of the image I wanted to show through the second layer. But I saw on a tutorial that someone could "turn the mask in a selection that appears around the mask, so that you can then cut out the object and paste it into a different environment."

  Here is the reference. It is the last two images in the tutorial:

  Using layers with Photoshop masks

  Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!!!

  To load the mask as a selection:

  Hold down the CTRL key and click on the mask, now, the selection will be charged.

  Then click on the thumbnail of the layer (NOT on the mask) and copy or cut the layer for any other destination

• view the psd with feather and the layer mask

  Hello

  There is one case where I can't display a modified to correct Photoshop image in LR.

  If the PSD file has a layer mask with a feather, LR displays a hard edge mask.

  There is no problem with a normal gradient or shadow a layer style.

  I'm on CC PS and LR CC, latest versions.

  Anyone have the same problem?

  Thank you

  JO

  

  This is a known bug in the latest version of Photoshop. Adobe knows about it, and I think they're going to fix in the next version of PS.

  HAL

• Layer mask does not properly clear?

  something is wrong w my layer mask. I maybe had clicked on something while doing some graphic but I'm pretty sure.

  When clear it was beautiful,

  

  the problem is when I want to recover the pieces that I deleted. It becomes translucent (or less opacity) rather than its original T ^ T

  If someone knows how to fix this please tell me! I use layer mask forever and I always use it, this isn't the same without it working properly T ^ T

  

  My first idea, see these differences: black and gray?

  Have you applied with a gray brush and the other with a black brush?

• Can I use more than 1 layer in a single layer mask?

  Hi all!

  
  

  I am a beginner in Photoshop, so everything I do to this tent to complete the tutorials.

  
  

  At a given time of the lesson I started today, mentions of the description that I must make a selection in the left part of the image, add a layer mask and press Ctrl + Backspace to make the selection disappears. I did it, no problem.

  
  

  The next step is to do the same in the upper part of the image.

  
  

  My problem is that I already have an active layer mask and I can't repeat the same steps because I am not allowed by the program to create a second in the same layer.

  
  

  What Miss me?
  

  Its very easy really and you do not need more of a mask. The author would probably include a photo of the layers palette for orientation.

  

  I have not used a path to create the edges of the pieces of the puzzle here, but the principle is exactly the same.

  Hope that helps

  Terri

• CC 2015 Photoshop layer mask does not?

  I've recently updated to CC in Photoshop, but I have problems with layer masks, I created the mask layer, and when I paint with my black brush, it does not block the area completely, it will leave the remains of the image essentially, it leaves an opaque shape. I check that my brush is set to normal and my layer is set to normal. I have reset the brushes, I tried implementing new photoshop documents, but it makes no difference. Can anyone help please see the example below, the Red is a layer below the layer of the image that has applied the layer mask.

  

  Reset preferences: opt-cmd-shift at the start of the PS.

• layer masks work does not correctly

  Help

  I use the layer mask, and all my settings are correct. The brush still shows the image, even if I'm brushing the image. What is going on?!!!

  Hello

  I was able to understand this madness.

  If you click color, and then click on the sliders in grayscale. You will see if your black is 100%. Which fixed the problem on my end. thanks for all the advice.

• Layer mask groups converted from work plans to the size of the artboard in older versions of Photoshop

  I wanted to start this post as an idea, but I couldn't choose communities (it wouldn't let me), so here it is posted...

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  Just came across this with a customer...

  I use for a mobile design project work plans, and I just got a screenshot with some texts asking why among work plans were really great. Way bigger than a phone. (I'm under NDA and cannot post the screenshot, but imagine there are a lot of iPhone size work plans and two of them seem to be at a right angle)

  I opened the file and on my end, everything is the right size. Remembering the weeks ago to tell the customer that they need to update their version of Photoshop for all this work correctly, I have take a look at the screenshot and see that they are on CC2014 - none of the work plans.

  What I'm asking here, is that, since we have data, plans of work are objects of a defined size and 'alive', why not just use these data to hide layer groups at the opening of the PSD / PSB (PSB in my case) in older versions of Photoshop?

  It could save you a TON of hassle and confusion.

  Hi Zack,

  High level to your query response is: no, there is no conduct business case for a general solution to what you are suggesting. So I don't see what is happening.

  I say that as someone who likes to give back and forth and backward compatibility.

  There are two parts of the problem that you raise. They are related and somewhat intertwined.

  1. Having the version previous (2014) do something reasonable with the data from the version the most recent (2015). Either the old version should be taught on the most recent data so it can make a decision about what to do, or the newer version must put additional data in the file format for consumption by the older version.
  2. Back and forth between versions. As you say, a much more difficult problem. In fact, we do a good job of that today. But we must be sure that whatever we do for (1) not to damage and back the wrong way.

  Let's be very clear: 2014 will not be touched, except for critical bugs, absolutely. And even before 2015 is released, it would have not been corrected to make it behave better with work plans. There is no way that I could see what is happening. So all we have done for better backward compatibility had to be entirely done within 2015.

  For the round trip, the general problem is something like this: we want to 2014 to read an object that has properties of 2015, he does not understand. While we might learn ch to keep these properties as opaque property, must also have rules for when these properties are not valid and thrown on the floor. Probably, if the object is changed. But not always. And sometimes when another object parent is changed. And so on. Right now, we destroy them unknown content from their reading in the old version. Make us and record what we understand. As a user, you receive an alert telling you that we are do this. It's the safest thing to do.

  There are special cases where a developer can see an opportunity to preserve a level of backward compatibility and back and forth. We try to do if we believe that it is safe. But this scenario happens only occasionally.

  In the case of work plans, made us really think about this: If we added a mask to the group for backward compatibility, it should do something with this mask reading around 2015. And what would happen if the user edited this mask in 2014 and opened upward in 2015 - and who edited mask do not align with the structures of the artboard? Things started to get dark quickly. We started to see traps. The workflow together to sheath special round trip had to be tested and verified. The cost was rising and this expense must be filtered through a cost/value trade-off. And then what happens when we add a new property to the structure of work plan? At these efforts for nothing?

  So we compromised with what you have today. Work plans become groups in 2014. The Group and the layer structure remains intact. Doesn't secretly add us and remove masks for the round trip. You can safely change the groups to your heart's content. When return you this document in 2015, you redo the work plans of the groups. Was not clear and safe way to do more than that given the time that we had.

  Take a step back and think about your problem, it doesn't seem to be a value to a script that converts group work plans + layer masks for your workflow to have your documents that is consumed by the customers of 2014. This would be carried out in 2015 because she would need understand the work plans. And maybe vice versa from 2014 to 2015, assuming that the documents were not published in a hostile way. We're not likely to write such a script as a generic tool, but someone competent with script might be able to do this.

  More that I intend to write, but hopefully, it gives you additional insight in the compromises that we have faced.

• White color on the layer mask does not

  Well, I have a problem... Each setting is fine, but when I open the layer mask on a layer, and if I have the black brush, it works very well, BUT if I brush white, it does not work. It's like the color white is on 0% opacity. It shows me an action in "history, but it's like I'm not even brushing."
  Now, when I want white brush, I switched layer mask, brush black and then I reverse again, because as I said, the white color just doesn't work...
  -Colours btw, work not in a layer mask

  Is the Mode in the Options bar to brush on something other than normal?