Layer mask thumbnail option

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• Layer Mask question, please help.

  Hello

  My layer mask does not work, do not know what is happening. I use 4 CS. I want to use the blend effect so I put the photos on a white background. I click on the layer mask on each photo, select the tool brush on the picture but does not work, is either appear black or white when I use the brush paint on it. So not bad, the foreground color should be gray & white based on layer mask, but it appears black & white instead. Please see the screenshot below. Please help, thanks

  

  Hi, I'm going to try explain your problem.

  In your posted example we see that you have three layers in the layers panel.

  On each layer, we can see, on the left side, there is the thumbnail of the layer, it is a display of the actual image of your layer, then a thumbnail of the layer mask (the white rectangle on the right side).

  A layer mask works as follows: you tell Photoshop to show or hide the actual parts (pixels) of the layer with the grayscale values. Indicates a white pixel on the layer masks Photoshop to display the area of the image with a (non-transparent) full opacity, while tells a black pixel on the Photoshop layer mask to hide the layer completely (0% opacity.) Gray values will therefore partially show the image data.

  But you paint on the document, and you must specify Photoshop if you want to paint on the image (what you did in your example, and you don't want to) or if you want to paint on the layer mask (what you want to do). This indication is called targeting. It is simply done by clicking on the thumbnail of the layer or the layer of your layer mask thumbnail. (By clicking on different areas of a layer in the palette layers are different orders, you give to the program). For example, if you want to move the layer that you hide to another, in order to paint on his mask, sure to click on the layer of the other layer mask thumbnail in the layers panel.

  In Photoshop CS5.5 and earlier versions, you'll see that a layer or its mask is targeted because there will be three contours around her: a black, a white and a black once again, as the actual layer data in the highlight 0928 your image layer. You should see these three contours around the layer mask to paint over it.

  CS6 the target indicator is different, look in my image, we can see that the layer mask is targeted with white corners: I then have the part of the black layer mask by targeting the layer mask in the layer panel and then paint on the image where I want to hide the layer.

  

  If you want to change the layer (photos, in your case), just click on the thumbnail, and you're ready to go!

  I hope this helps.

  See these help documents: laquerbe Basics: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-78e3a.h tml

  Layer masks: http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/masking-layers.html

  Some the search results for "Masks fundamental layer" in Photoshop help: http://community.adobe.com/help/search.html?q=layer+mask+basics&x=0&y=0&lbl=photoshop_prod uct_adobelr & hl = en_US & lr = en_US & auto = 0 & area = 0

  (It is one of the best ways to search for files of tutorials or help)

  Stone

• Absent layer of my adjustment layer mask

  Hello gang of Photoshop,

  Sometimes when I do a layer (such as a Vibrance adjustment) adjustment layer have or do not have an attached layer mask thumbnail. Lately, it does NOT show a thumbnail of the layer mask. When I have an active selection and then make an adjustment layer, there then not attached layer mask thumbnail. On another computer, I do the same creation of adjustment layer, and it automatically has a layer mask thumbnail. What happens on a computer that does NOT have the thumbnail of the layer mask?

  I hope it's clear enough!

  Mike Witherell in Silver Spring, MD

  There is a preference for whether you want automatically added layer mask.

  Look in the menu SETTINGS Panel fly:

  

  -Christmas

• I want to see the layer mask instead of the thumbnail of the layer mask in the layers palette.

  I don't see a thumbnail of the mask layer instead of the layer mask itself when I add a layer mask to the CS6.  How can I change this so the layer mask

  appear in the layers palette?

  Thank you

  Marc

  From what I remember of the CS6, it's the same CC follow these steps: in the layers palette, click on Panel options

  

  Click on the larger thumbnail

  

  The layer mask should now be big enough to see. Otherwise, you need to display it on the screen by alt clicking on

  on a PC option by clicking on the layer mask on a Mac

  

• Restore to 'apply the layer mask' OPTION?

  There is a new feature where you can drag a layer to the trash and NOT invited mask to "apply the layer mask?  This also has the 'do' don't show again option - which I clicked by accident. Thus, the default is now to apply the layer mask when I drag a layer mask to the trash. I can't imagine a way to restore the more traditional function, without restoring all other prefs.

  So what I would like is a way to restore the default classic where dragging a layer mask to trash the opportunity to apply or ignore them.

  Please excuse this apparently insgnificant request, but it is a very common function I would like to restore.

  Thank you!

  See if clicking Reset all dialogs warning at the bottom of Photoshop > Preferences > general solves the problem.

  

  

• Layer mask does not work correctly.

  My normal layer mask does not work correctly.  When I click on add a layer mask, I get this instead.  I change a setting by chance?  He won't let me see where my traditional black and white mask.

  

  Hello

  In the layers panel, click the dropdown menu, click on Options in the Panel and select one thumbnail size other than None.

  

• Copy layer mask

  Is it possible to copy a layer mask to another layer? The only option I must deal with is a group of layers I want with the same mask and make the mask file, but sometimes I want to copy the layer mask.

  Hold down the ALT in windows or opt on mac and drag the thumbnail of the mask to the other layer.

• How to view the alpha channel of the layer mask in the layers palette?

  Help out me people CIHI...
  CS5 using - in the past, when I added a layer to a layer mask, it would appear in the palette as the alpha channel, which was very convenient. Now, when I add a layer mask, it appears only as the icon of mask; that is, square gray with a white circle in the middle. I have no idea what I did to go from one to the other, but I'd like to return the alpha representation!

  TIA,

  Toby

  Looks like you have set the layers panel to "no thumbnails. Right-click on a layer thumbnail (not a mask thumbnail) other than the bottom to see the thumbnails options.

• 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

• By default gray layer mask

  Hello

  I made a few changes on a photo and in the Panel layers (screenshot below), some of layer masks are gray instead of black.  I made these changes in quick succession of each other, so I don't understand why some are out some grey and black (which is OK)?

  I was doing a box on an image selection, and then by clicking on the button layer mask below layers panel, which then creates a layer / layer mask with the selection and the selected layer mask option (i.e. color balance, brightness / contrast, etc.).

  Any help on why this happens and whether or not it is correct would be great.

  

  You did all of the selections as a path with the pen tool (or other vector tool)? If you did and you add the adjustment layer, you will get a vector mask gray/white.

  

• Vector mask thumbnails in the layers panel

  In Photoshop CC, vector mask photos see room for files and raster layers, but they don't show up for layers of fill (i.e. layers of form). How can I get a feature similar to Photoshop CS5? There is a sort of thumbnail of the shape layer, but the square icon covers 1/4 tile that makes partially useless.

  Choice you seems to be staying with an older version of dead of Photoshop or to adapt your workflow to the modified form of the Photoshop UI.

  You can simulate a shape layer to some extent to get the vector mask thumbnail. However, you would not have layers of Photpshop shape and features.

  

• Layer mask problem

  Somehow, I've changed a setting that has now caused me problems with my layer mask. When I add a layer, then make a blurr Gaussian then to create a layer mask using the ALT key and clicking on the layer mask that my mask should appear in black. However, it doesn't. And I can't figure out how to change... or what to change to correct it. I'm a windows help using Photoshop CC. I do not know how to make the screen print see here since my photoshop so need advice on that a well... Can someone help me? Thank you very much! Kristy

  Your screenshot is confusing because you have either thumb nails disabled in the options panel, or you don't actually have a layer mask.

  

• Paste an image into a layer mask does not work even after several approaches

  I can't paste an image into a layer mask. I tried to keep 'option' by clicking on the layer mask (to activate the white), then "Control + V" to paste the image but it still places the image in a new layer. I tried to paste through the Palette layers without success (pasta in a new layer). I tried to use past special from the Edit menu, but the past command is grayed out. Any ideas for why it does not work for me?

  I tried to keep 'option' by clicking on the layer mask (to activate the white), then "Control + V" to paste the image

  Did you select > all and edit > copy the image you want to put in the mask?

• Using the layer mask in Photoshop CC 2015?

  Hello!

  I'm trying to iron out some unsightly underarm in Photoshop CC 2015.

  I duplicated the layer and applied Surface blur.

  I clicked on the layer of the dup, while pressing option (using a Mac) to create a layer mask where I could brush the blur in but nothing happens. What I'm missing here?

  Thank you!

  Confirm:

  The blurred version is on a layer above the background image

  The version hazy layer has a black mask

  You paint the mask in white with the brush opacity Normal and 100% value

  The Brush tool is not too much to feathers. (To check, use brush hard edge as a test)

• Add a layer mask

  Hello

  I came across this thread in the forum of items https://forums.adobe.com/thread/798304 and had the same question for the CC PS (I don't have the elements to see if this suggestion works there). I tried to add a selection to the layer mask to my pressing Shift/Ctrl and clicking on the thumbnail of the mask, but it does not work (the result has been to deselect the new selection and simply load the mask selection). Other/different way could there be to do?

  Thank you

  -David

  What operating system do you use?

  The same procedure, spoken in the post that you linked to should also work in photoshop cc

  But it probably really can't load the existing layer mask selection.

  After that you have the choice, you want to add to the layer mask, simply target the layer mask (click on the thumbnail of the layer mask to make it active), and then fill the selection with black or white.