After years of over sharpening my photo scans I'm finally going to ask if someone can help me. What is the best way to overcome the temptation to sharpen too much? Sometimes it looks fine on my screen but the print has ?..........?. It seems that I can?t trust my eyes when viewing the screen. Does anyone have a ?formula?? What is the best magnification to use when using UNSHARP MASK?
View 9 RepliesHow do I do this in CS4?
View 9 Replies View RelatedMy subject line pretty much sums up what I want to ask.
The thing is I've learned how to do both of them, but every textbook exercise I've done regarding one I found out that I can pull off with the other too.
Are they simply two different mechanisms for doing the same thing?
how to manipulate the size of the wipeout for a text mask.
Simply selecting the masked text in C3D 2011 provided pick boxes at the four corners of the wipeout, making it very easy to manipulate the size of the wipeout box. I'm hoping to do the same in C3D 2012, but the wipeout seems to be treated like a block and lacks the pick boxes.A system variable maybe?
While creating various circular masks with a radial gradient from white to black, whenever I change the blending mode of the mask path Ai will throw me out of mask mode into layer editing mode. Since this is on a large document of ~2Gb file with multiple artbords for large poster & UI refresh speed is slow, this has become quite frustrating. Is this normal Ai behaviour?
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Once I use a Clipping Mask on a layer is the entire document covered in a mask?
And/or is all the artwork from then on inside the mask?
I've read about how to add and how to remove art from a mask. I've read about how to make and release and lots of other things.
So, then I went and found a lesson that contained the use of a Clipping Mask.
I am suppose to Select the main shape and "just" copy it and move it down (doesn't say rather to Paste in front or back but I assumed in back ~ not that it has mattered thus far)
However, while making the main shape I used Gradient Mesh and used an Offset to create a "replica" and so when I go to Select the main shape the mesh is selected and so when I Paste (in back ~ seems most logical) and then move it down the details such as the colors of the Gradient and other such things are visible in front ~ ??
So, I have been trying to abate my problem in lots of different ways.
I have tried using the Pen tool to draw behind the main shape, I've tried making a New Layer and placing it above and below and inbetween the main shape layer, I've tried adding the artwork to the Mask ... I've tried everything I can think of and I've been through many an article in the manual and FAQ's to no avail.
I suppose, what I think I need to know ... is, how ... how on earth do I draw behind this main shape? Am I not able to do it because I am not getting behind the Mask?
I have been trying to and a layer mask to my image. When I go to unmask my image it wont work it shows it in the layer mask thumbnail but not in the real image.
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm doing an online tutorial on Photoshop and the instructor keeps adding masks. So I keep adding them to my portraits but I really don't understand what it is exactly that I'm doing or why.
View 3 Replies View Relatedwhat the term mask means in Photoshop -- there are quick masks, layer masks, saved selections, etc.
Is there an overall definition for all of the types of masks?
1. Is it possible to create a custom texture (the ones you can apply to your brush for example)?
2. Can you transfrom your picture into a mask for use on another layer?
3. how would you create a line looking like it's coming towards you.
I tried vanishing point but that was to rectangular.
I have the latest version of CS6 on my Mac, OS X 10.8.x. I have found a bug where Quick Mask is not always activated when you select it. Meaning, you select Quick Mask and the proper pen, color, etc., and it won't paint in the mask (default = red). It also doesn't appear to be actually /doing/ a mask either, so I don't think this is a display/driver issue.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am having difficultly installing OnOne plug-ins (Mask Pro 4, and the free versions of Photoframe and Perfect Effects) into Photoshop CS5. The OnOne site help gives an updated installer for Mask Pro 4, and says to first remove the old one. How do I uninstall it? What is the trick to installing the correct one?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI'm still having no luck with Refine Edge / Mask (CS5 & Win 7).
Following a tutorial at[URL]....
I come unstuck right after clicking on the Add Mask icon. In the tutorial the mask appears with a black/white checkered edge. As the commentary says, "You can tell when the mask is selected by the dotted border."
Well no matter what I do I do not get that dotted border, not when I click on the mask, double click, right click. (Nor do I get the checkered border when I click on the Layer icon. Both the layer and mask have plain white borders.)
I can't get to a Refine Mask option, only Refine Edge. When I try to improve the selection it looks as though I'm using an eraser tool at about 20% opacity, it just gets steadily more transparent. So how do I get the mask selected?
I do not have the ability to create a clipping mask in cs5. It doesn't matter if I use the short cut or the long way. In fact, when I go the long way it is in grey print, not black...so it is not even an option.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI recently started using cs6 Photoshop and its the first time I get around to selecting hair with cs6. I know how to do it with cs5 not a problem. I simply cant find the mask window! Where did adobe put it this time!?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am trying to resize a mask in Photshop CS6 and everytime I try to scale it the mask disappears and I cant see what Im doing. Is there a setting that I need to change so that I can see it?screenshots of what is happening when I try & resize.
I have the mask visible in the first screenshot. And the 2nd screenshot shows how it disappears when I try to resize.
In Classroom in a book for CS5 this is clearly explained and community fora make mention of pixel mask, but none actually step you through it. I can not find it in the properties panel.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI just upgraded from CS4 to CS6 and have been looking forward to using the incredible masking tools. I found a video by Russell Brown on Adobe TV that was very good....but it was for CS5 and I just wasted an hour of my life trying to figure out where the "Refine Mask" window was in CS6. I finally called support and AFTER the support person watched the video while I was on hold, she was able to tell me that in CS6, you double click on the mask to open the properties tab and have access to the sliders. They are different than in CS5, though.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI recently was working with a few files and found that the density and feathering settings cause my files to crash when I use them as selection. Most recently, I had a raster mask at an density of 60%, and I selected that as a marquee, inverted it, and then selected a different mask and deleted it from the mask. Basically trying to isolate an area for masking. The second mask I applied was applied to a group, everything up to this point saved fine. But once I selected the mask, inverted etc. I tried to save and immediately photoshop became unresponsive and would crash. Is this a known bug? It's really frustrating, that the mask properties have lead to issues like this.
View 6 Replies View RelatedWhen I make a layer mask and use my brush tool at 100% opacity you can still see some of the image below. It is as though 100% is only 98% or so.
When I merge down the layers the slight opacity shows on the flattened image. actually get 100% opacity?
What are some different ways that I could mask out this gradient and leave an oval?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am trying to figure out how to use an image as a background in some text.
For example, I have the word "zebra" using a standard text tool, and want zebra stripes to fill the interior of the letters.
I want to know if I can create a mask on a photo I have, basically Iwant to remove the background but I want to put some form of mask over the some of the photo so that no of the brush stokes etc alter that part of the image..
Can this be done at all with CS3?
I was trying to create an action to do the following on a photo....
1. Duplicate the background layer 3x.
2. Add a 20px black stroke to the top layer
3. Gausian Blur the top layer by 20px
4. Set top layer to Multiply
5. Create a Layer mask on the top layer
6. Select a soft brush and paint back in the bottom layers using a soft brush.
When I do this, it paints black on top of my image and I see the black also painting in the little mask box. I have clicked on the layer mask box before I started step 6. Why isn't is revealing the lower layer.
I select edit in quick mask mode and start painting away, I switch back to standard mode and hit delete to leave me with the image I want..and all the rest dissapears...as it should. But the image I have left starts to go transparent.
Can anyone help with this as its starting to drive me mad..I have even uninstalled and reinstalled photoshop but I still have the same problem. How can I have the image remain in all its glory and not transparent?
See the image on the main page with the glasses? I saved this background and opened it in Photoshop. I found several images I want to use to recreate this same look. I know I could use the eraser tool and get a similar look but can't I use something like a layer mask to get that same effect without having to erase the images? I have a file with several layers, each with an image?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI processed an HDR image using 3 shots with my D80 (-2.0, 0, +2.0). I put the 3 shots in Photomatix and processed the final HDR image. So far so good. I now have 4 files, the 3 original shots and the processed HDR TIFF file. With me so far?
OK, I would now like to take the processed TIFF image and the underexposed (-2.0) NEF file and open them both in Photoshop. I would like the NEF file to be the bottom image in my layers pallet and the HDR TIFF file to be the upper image in my layers pallet. In short, these 2 images in my layers pallet in the order I just mentioned.
I would then like to paint over some of the areas on the TIFF layer to reveal the elements from the NEF file below. How do I do this?
This is what I do so far.
File>Open> select the NEF file and open from Camera Raw. That image is now in my layers pallet as Background. That bit I can do...
NEXT. How do I add the tonemapped TIFF into my layers pallet above the Background NEF image? And then set it up so that I can paint over parts of the TIFF image to reveal the bottom layer? When I've tried I end up just painting black literally (it doesn't reveal).
I have cropped a photo in photo shop 7 and drop it in as a clipping mask in cs2 , upon opening cs2 the clipping mask disappears
View 1 Replies View Relatedin another thread, spectra mentioned to set the radius at the resolution/200. so i assume this means if its 72, then divide it by 200 and set the radius at .36. I was just curious as to whether or not anyone knows where this number comes from? I tried it, and it works great. Just not sure why it is so.
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I need the black in a drawing I made to be the actual mask in a layer mask. Where the black of my drawing allows the picture below to show thru...