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OK I've finished this next layout and actually ended up using the masking technique twice on the same layout! However, a funny thing keeps happening and I've no clue as to why. After I placed DGS face in the van window, every time I clicked anywhere in the layout, the bounding box went right to the layer with his face. It was like a magnet..couldn't figure out why and I did not realize it at first but the mask actually moved above his pic leaving the original pic before being "masked" in the window. Really weird! But I'm sure I must have done something to have created that situation..just don't know what! The same thing did not happen with the big pic however.
Candy, I was having the same problem in photoshop elements. I found I was only able to soften the edges if the foreground color was white, not black. Hope this helps,
Denise
Thanks I'll try this, I am still having trouble.........:(
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No luck my black masking work shows up on all my layers and still my photo is not blending into the background paper..........just don't know what I'm doing wrong??
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Candy, a couple of things to check.
1. Do you have your photo clipped onto your mask? There should be a little right angled arrow pointing from the photo to the mask.
2. Are the layers in the correct order? Could there be something inbetween your photo and your mask?
3. Is your mask filled with white? And are you painting with black?
Candy, a couple of things to check.
1. Do you have your photo clipped onto your mask? There should be a little right angled arrow pointing from the photo to the mask.
2. Are the layers in the correct order? Could there be something inbetween your photo and your mask?
3. Is your mask filled with white? And are you painting with black?
4. What kind of brush are you using?
1. Check
2. Check nothing
3. Check
4. a soft brush #9
??? Ahhh! I really want to try this challenge:confused: Thanks for all your help ladies.
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Good for you for finding a way! Your page is gorgeous!
I know how frustrating it can be to know that a technique SHOULD work, but just doesn't. Sometimes when that happens to me, I start all over, completely. Shut it all down, close PSE and start again. Occasionally glitches do happen. Usually I find it is some simple step that I've missed somewhere or misinterpreted and by starting all over, completely, it will show up..... hopefully!
Candy,
I'm off to have a look at your layout. I know how frustrating it is when the tuts don't work or photoshop hiccups. I agree with Ann, shut it all down and start over when you have some time. I am so anxious to get it working for you.
For the next tutorial, I actually went through in elements and wrote an additional tutorial that I hope works perfectly for you. Let me know, ok?
Thanks Ladies, your all so sweet!!! I did try starting over but it still didn't work, I remember one time I was having a lot of trouble get something to work right and I had to actually remove my PSE program and reload it before things changed, maybe thats what I need to do again??
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You're welcome, Candy,
I'm going to have a look at that tutorial and rewrite all the steps just for elements, that's what you're using, right? What version. Let's have you give that a try. I really want you to be able to do this technique and I am sure there must be a little bit info I must have left out of the tut. I'll have it in a bit!;)
I did it, I did it, by gosh I did it! This took me a lot of time to figure out as I was trying many different ways to do this and get it to look good in MDS. Plus, I DON'T know ANYTHING about photoshop, but I am so thankful for these challenges to get me more experienced. Boy am I looking forward to Masking 102! Might take me a month or so but I'm determined!
Candy, give this a try. Open up a brand new document, any size, white. Let's see if you can mask on a new document. I'll be you are getting really good at these steps by now!!!
I can type out the directions here if you want. Maybe seeing it again from someone else will open up where the glitch is.
After the doc is open, double click on it to activate it so it's not locked. Import a photo on a new layer.
Create a mask layer. Do this by clicking on the black/white circle icon at the bottom. Choose levels. Close the adjustment window.
Drag the adjustment layer below the photo, but above the background.
Clip the photo to the adjustment layer. The shortcut is hold down the alt key and hover mouse over the line between the two layers til you see the two half circles. The little arrow shows up to show the photo is clipped to the mask.
Choose your brush. I use 300 soft edge. Make sure opacity is 100% and the mode is normal (at the top)
Double check the foreground color so that it stayed on black and that your are on the mask layer. Now see if you can eliminate your photo and see the background coming through.
I just did this on my PSE8 and it worked.
Let me know if this works. If not, then I'd reload PSE or try calling them. What are you using? Mac or PC?
I did it, I did it, by gosh I did it! This took me a lot of time to figure out as I was trying many different ways to do this and get it to look good in MDS. Plus, I DON'T know ANYTHING about photoshop, but I am so thankful for these challenges to get me more experienced. Boy am I looking forward to Masking 102! Might take me a month or so but I'm determined!
Yea Kristie, I'm jumping up and down clappig my hands doing the happy dance. yea. Now I must head over to the gallery to see. It's so exciting figuring out how to make something work, isn't it? You'll be writing tutorials for MDS before long!
I'm so happy that someone else is using MDS! How did you get the effect? Did you use an overlay? I'd love to know! I'm trying to use MDS to do the challenges as much as I can, but it is limited. I love it though
Yea Kristie, I'm jumping up and down clappig my hands doing the happy dance. yea. Now I must head over to the gallery to see. It's so exciting figuring out how to make something work, isn't it? You'll be writing tutorials for MDS before long!
Thanks so much! I was too! Not sure I'll be writing much...I'd have to bleep out all the bad words that come along with me trying to do these things LOL!! Keep them coming though they are great challenges (emphasis on the word challenge for me!) and I'm really enjoying it!!! Thanks for all your hard work in putting it all together and writing the tutorials!
Hey Kristie!
I will keep them coming, it's so much fun to watch everyone use the tutorials as a starting point and then create such wonderful pages! We all get to learn this way.
giggle I know what you mean about those bad words slipping out - tutorials are not easy to write!
You ladies are the BEST!!! you've offered so many suggestions but alas I had to remove my PSE program from my computer and re-load it and bingo it worked and here is my page I wanted to make right from the start.........TFL It starts by taca410 - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers
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Oh yea, Candy! I'm so thrilled. I know that sometimes there are little photoshop gremlins and they are very tricky. Glad you got rid of them.:p Now I'm off to the gallery.
Candy, you are so much fun. It has been such a pleasure watching you tackle these challenges and then create such beautiful pages. Good for you! And you are so welcome, you're an absolute joy to work with!
