Photoshop :: Can't Erase Or Draw On Layers
Feb 20, 2007I have a simple image made up of 3 layers, all unlocked.
The eraser and brush tools have no affect on the layers. It's weird, because they were working yesterday on the same image.
I have a simple image made up of 3 layers, all unlocked.
The eraser and brush tools have no affect on the layers. It's weird, because they were working yesterday on the same image.
I have been editing a batch of photos and everything had been working fine.
But then it was not allowing me to directly edit the layers. I cannot draw, paint, erase, smooth, etc. I can draw shapes and select and delete material, but have no independent control with the tools.
I assume I have done something that will not allow me to "Paint" or "Erase" on layers. When I choose the paintbrush, the "chip" indicating the color no longer appears on the toolbar, opacity is set to 100%. Blending option is set to "Normal". "Paint Fill", shapes, filters and everything else works, so the layer or pixels are not locked. If I use one of the tools, the action appears in the "history" pallette, but does not appear on the display. This problem occurs on multiple images.I'm sure there are more settings that are relavent to solving the issue, but I can't think of any more right now.
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I'm trying the use the Erase Tool to erase the same section on the 3 edit layers at the same time. This action saves me repeating the same erase on all three layers as separate actions.
how I can erase 3 layers at the sametime?
Is there any way I can erase the same exact point on multiple layers with one click of the eraser, rather than doing it on each layer individually (and having to line up that same point again)?
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Any variable name that controls this functionality?
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We tend to use leaders a fair bit and they often drop below some of our design elements, ideally we want them to be at the front & have to spend time bringing to front / sending to back etc.
I just downloaded a student version of Autocad for a uni assignment.upload a drawing/template I could use as a template.
I just need appropriate layers to draw some columns / beams and slab with basic reo in Metric format (model will be drawn in mm's). A simple A3 layout with title block would also be nice
I have tried googling for template downloads but all I got was a bunch of sites telling me how to make my own (rather not waste my time) and that Autocad should have come with some available (none had more than 2 layers).
I created a email icon:
layer 5 stamp text
layer 4 rectangle (stamp)
layer 3 text
layer 2 rectangle (envelope)
layer 1 background
When I tried to work on the background layer, I realized I couldn't paint/draw on any of the layers except layer 4, but changes only appear inside the stamp's rectangular area.
I haven't don't anything clever here, I simply made a layer, drew a simple shape, stroked path, and added a new layer until I was done.
How do I undo this layer fixation?
Is there anyway that I can assign a layer to be always in the front/on top of all other layers in draw order?
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Well they did not erase, they wrote and not in my primary color. Then when I went to show my husband...all of a sudden they worked correctly. Then I went on my merry way playing with my new brushes and they broke again. I am going to try to include pics here but I am not real good at HTML. It just seems easier to show you what is on my screen than to describe it.
So, the first picture is when I used my brush as a Brush Tool as you can see. I had to zoom in so you can see how many pixels it actually wrote. As you can see the brush is much larger. This is the second time it did this. The first time it wrote many more pixels, actually looked kinda cool with this faded ink kind of look to it.
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However, -and here's the strange thing- when the eraser is set to brush and the erase isn't working, if I go at the layer crazily, constantly clicking at the layer, eventually the eraser does work! Every single click is registered in the history window, but the actual action of erasing only actually happens sparsely after random clicking. And it seems to be completely random as well. It doesn't seem to depend on where I click, or the frequency of clicks or even the time after the first click.
I have an image of a website form, and a border that goes around it (the <fieldset> tag). Behind this border exists a samurai's head and some nice looking flowers, which if he knew about them, I am relatively sure the samurai would be pissed.
Anyway, I want to be able to erase the border from the top of the samurai's head so that it will ultimately look like the border's lines run behind the head, and not over the top. I am aware that one way to do this would involve rendering the samurai object separate from the image, but that would be a lot of work, and I am looking for an easier / better solution.
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Anyone know of any professional filters that do this?
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How can I stop this?
I took a time lapse of 240 photos of the highway below. What I want to do is create a background plate where all the cars are erased from the shot. The steps I've been doing are:
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I don't think I'm doing this right though, because the baseline photo always has cars I can't erase. I can do the reverse, and take photo A into another B photo, but it just feels like the way I'm doing this is wrong.
Is there a cleaner, more precise way to do this? If I've added a layer with no cars on top of the background layer, shouldn't I be able to erase the cars from the background layer?
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Edit: (I tried to include the image here, but it appears it's against forum rules. Oh well. I think having the image would be a good reference, so if there's a way that can be worked out...)
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