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Aug 8, 2012

In Photoshop CS5, some of my rectangular layer masks are creating a lighter shadow like bandin just below the top of the mask.  No effects are applied to the mask. How do I correct this issue?

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Photoshop :: Rectangular Layer Masks Creating Lighter Shadow

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In Photoshop CS5, some of my rectangular layer masks are creating a lighter shadow like bandin just below the top of the mask.  No effects are applied to the mask.

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My goal is to batch plots using VB in Visual Studio 2008, Autocad Map 3D 2010, Win 7 Pro 64.  It all works but now I want to apply layerstates.

I am using the example in the dev. guide here: [URL]........

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I need an easy way to fix a high contrast image such as an interior home shot where the windows are blown out and you can't see outside detail,but the interior is either correctly exposed or is underexposed. Basically what i need to do is combine the correctly exposed interior with the correctly exposed windows, showing correct exposure for both interior and exterior detail. To get the correct exposure i have been taking a shot in which i meter the windows, and without moving the camera, take another shot in which i meter the interior.

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I have tried applying a gaussian blur to the mask, but this just changes the posterization, it doesn't remove it. Doing the gaussian blur with the document in 16 bit mode doesn't make any difference.
 
The posterization is visible at all zoom levels. I have tried setting cache levels to 1 and GPU acceleration to basic (and restarting PS), but still see the posterization when using a soft brush on a layer mask.
 
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that i have, and want to achieve that:

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So did i miss something about layer styles and there is easy way to apply mask to only effects, but not to image itself? Or at least to get something like that:

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